Claude Raisaro,a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at Stockholm School of Economics, visited the NCID to give a seminar as part of the Job Market entitled "Incentives justifying nonconformity: experimental evidence from motortaxi organizations in Uganda".
This paper studies whether economic incentives may be more powerful when they help justify choices that have social image costs among peers.
Incentive evidence is provided that speeding is considered admirable among...
Mattia Fracchia, a PhD Candidate in Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics, visited the NCID to give a seminar as part of the Job Market entitled "Does performance evidence motivate? A field experiment in Guinea-Bissau´s health sector".
The main objective is to investigate how employees respond to evidence about their organisation's performance in fulfilling its mission.
Following a randomised field experiment in Guinea-Bissau, it was found that after providing frontline health worker...
Cristina Clerici, a PhD Candidate in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, visited the NCID to give a seminar as part of the Job Market entitled "Information, expectations and preferences: occupational choices of young adults in Uganda".
She focuses on answering the question: What drives young adults’ occupational choices in Africa? A survey of 1,003 young men and women in urban Uganda highlights the role of information, expectations and preferences in career choice.
First, it shows that r...