Motivating volunteer health workers in an African capital city
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Title: | Motivating volunteer health workers in an African capital city |
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Authors: | Fracchia, Mattia | Molina-Millán, Teresa | Vicente, Pedro C. |
Research Group/s: | Economía Laboral y Econometría (ELYE) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico |
Keywords: | Non-financial incentives | Motivation | Community health workers | Social status | Task significance | Guinea-Bissau | Africa |
Issue Date: | 29-Mar-2023 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Journal of Development Economics. 2023, 163: 103096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103096 |
Abstract: | Community Health Workers (CHWs) are central to health systems. Still, they are typically unpaid volunteers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper follows all the CHWs in the capital city of Guinea-Bissau, who are non-salaried, and tests the impact of non-financial incentives on health indicators. We analyze two randomized interventions for CHWs: (i) an honorific award aimed at raising their social status; (ii) a video treatment aimed at increasing their perceived task significance. While employing administrative and survey data, we find that the social status intervention, differently from the task significance one, causes clear improvements in household health, particularly for young children. |
Sponsor: | We acknowledge funding from the European Union, UNICEF, Instituto Camões, Fundaçaõ Calouste Gulbenkian, USAID, and Fundaçaõ para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/133320 |
ISSN: | 0304-3878 (Print) | 1872-6089 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103096 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103096 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - ELYE - Artículos de Revistas |
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