This enlightening book scrutinizes the shifting governance paradigms that inform public
administration reforms. From the rise to supremacy of New Public Management to new the …

We develop a model in which bank culture improves upon outcomes attainable with
incentive contracting. The bank designs a second-best incentive contract to induce the …

Teacher absenteeism is an important obstacle to sustained learning gains in many
develo** countries. We report the results from a randomized evaluation of an adult …

Motivation crowding studies have demonstrated that external interventions can harm effort
and performance through crowding out of intrinsic motivation, when interventions are …

Economics Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon developed the concept of bounded rationality in
the 1950s. This asserts that the cognitive abilities of human decision-makers are not always …

Background The purpose of this study was to contribute to knowledge about what is
regarded as an appropriate governance model in welfare markets in healthcare, from the …

Incentives are a useful tool in encouraging healthy behavior as part of public health
initiatives. However, there remains concern about motivation crowd out—a decline in levels …

We use data on estate divisions to study to whom altruistic preferences are directed. Insofar
bequests are given without the prospect of future personal benefits in mind, they are …

This article is based on a systematic literature review of compensation practices and
motivation processes in social sector organisations. The review is divided into two main sub …

1 I förbigående kan här nämnas att konkurrens från privata äldreboenden ökar de äldsta
invånarnas livslängd (Bergman m fl 2016) och att Sveriges enda privata akutsjukhus (Capio …