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 workers with evidence of the effectiveness of their programme in improving local health indicators, the performance of health service delivery improved significantly.

Treated workers provided 39% more health care time to beneficiaries compared to the control group six months after the intervention.

These results highlight the potential for organisations to leverage performance testing to improve workers' efforts.