What Motivates Local Governments to Be Efficient? Evidence from Philippine Cities

What Motivates Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts∗

How much do different monetary and non-monetary motivators induce costly effort? Does the effectiveness line up with the expectations of researchers? We present the results of a large-scale real-effort experiment with 18 treatment arms. We compare the effect of three motivators: (i) standard incentives; (ii) behavioral factors like present bias, reference dependence, and social preferences; and...

What Will Motivate Local Governments to Share Spatial Information?

Local government is a rich source of accurate and detailed spatial information which is utilised not only at the local level but increasingly at other levels of government. To build the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) at a state and national level, the role of local governments and their motivation to participate in the sharing of spatial information must be better understood. Although instit...

What Motivates People to Become Teachers

What Motivates Employees?

The purpose of this paper is to deepen the discussion about what motivates employees. This paper briefly describes the seven stages of psychological development and the corresponding levels of motivation. These are linked to Harvard Professor Robert Kegan’s work on the three types of mind (socialized mind, self‐authoring mind, and self‐transforming mind). Each of the three types of mind has dif...

Local Governments and Health Services: How Can They Be Reconciled?

The article discusses the concepts of centralisation and decentralisation in theory. There are various criteria that can be used to assess the advantages and disadvantages of decentralisation, and the paper will discuss these. In addition, empirical examples are presented. Next the article moves on to a case study of Finland. Finland has strong municipalities in the comparative European aspect,...