| Title: |
Performance Pay Increases Dog Vaccinations to Reduce Human Rabies |
| Authors: |
Lankester, Felix; Manian, Shanthi; Yoder, Jonathan |
| Publisher Information: |
Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
The World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) |
| Subject Terms: |
INCENTIVES; PERFORMANCE PAY; VACCINATION; RABIES |
| Description: |
Rural development projects often depend on local community members to coordinate community participation. Using a randomized controlled trial, this paper examines how pay-for-performance for community coordinators affects participation in dog vaccination events to prevent human rabies in Tanzania. Three treatments were implemented: fixed payment only, pay-for-performance only, or a mix of fixed payment and pay-for-performance. Using dog vaccination histories, the experiment equalizes the total expected payment across treatments, isolating the effect of payment type. Mixed payment increases dog vaccinations by 16 percent compared to a fixed payment. Each 10 percent increase in per-dog payment raises vaccinations by 0.4 percent. Changing the fixed payment rate has a negligible effect. Thus, pay-for-performance induces higher effort than the fixed component. The findings suggest that pay-for-performance can improve the effectiveness of rural development projects such as mass immunization events. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf; text/plain |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
World Bank Economic Review; World Bank Economic Review; 39 (3); The World Bank Economic Review; https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43564 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43564; https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/b3d937bb-cd0b-4de5-8ce4-94fda83414d2 |
| Rights: |
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo ; World Bank |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.234C6FD5 |
| Database: |
BASE |