Does Bureaucracy Diminish Inclusion? Evidence from a County Government

Government Value Paradigms - Bureaucracy, New Public Management, and E-Government

Performance Incentives and Organizational Behavior: Evidence from a Federal Bureaucracy

This paper examines the effects of performance incentives in a federal job training program for the economically disadvantaged. A natural experiment that exogenously varies the incentives that government workers face allows me to identify incentive responses, which I find are consistent with a simple model of organizational behavior. Additionally, I show that the program’s incentive designers h...

Does group inclusion hurt financial inclusion? Evidence from ultra-poor members of Ugandan savings groups∗

Millions of ultra-poor households in sub-Saharan Africa rely exclusively on savings groups to meet their financial needs. However, the ability of savings groups to fully meet these needs remains unclear. We randomly assign ultra-poor Ugandan households to savings groups containing different proportions of ultra-poor members. We find evidence that groups may be unable to satisfy the borrowing ne...

Inclusion in E-government: a Security Perspective

With over 90% of the UN’s member countries operating government websites, the phenomenon of egovernment is of critical importance to national and international communities. Implementation of egovernment takes various forms and this paper develops a framework which aims to define and classify e-government according to its advanced use of technology, engagement of citizens and government. One of ...

Does Social Judgment Diminish Rule Breaking?

We experimentally investigate the extent to which social observability of one’s actions and the possibility of social non-monetary judgment affect the decision to engage in rule breaking behavior. We consider three rule breaking scenarios — theft, bribery and embezzlement — in the absence of any formal enforcement mechanism. By involving a student sample characterized by cultural heterogeneity ...