Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India

Am Econ Rev. 2017 May;107(5):506-10. doi: 10.1257/aer.p20171105.

Authors

Katherine Donato¹, Grant Miller², Monoj Mohanan³, Yulya Truskinovsky⁴, Marcos Vera-Hernandez⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
² Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
³ Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC.
⁴ Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
⁵ Department of Economics, University College London, London.

PMID: 29553630
DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20171105

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
India
Infant
Infant Health
Infant Mortality
Maternal Health*
Neuroticism
Obstetrics* / economics
Obstetrics* / statistics & numerical data
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Personality*
Physicians / psychology*
Postnatal Care*
Postpartum Hemorrhage
Pre-Eclampsia
Pregnancy
Prenatal Care
Reimbursement, Incentive*
Rural Population
Sepsis
Treatment Outcome