Management, supervision, and healthcare: A field experiment
نویسندگان
چکیده
We used a randomized management consulting intervention with 80 public-sector healthcare facilities in Nigeria to study the role of information, training, and supervision on adoption improved organizational practices. Facilities that received detailed improvement plans 9 months implementation support—including regular visits monitor progress set intermediate goals related plans—showed large, significant short-term effects practices were under responsibility facility staff. general advice but no support showed change Implementation appears crucial for improvements, especially contexts without market incentives effective managerial
منابع مشابه
Professionalizing Healthcare Management: A Descriptive Case Study
Despite international recognition of the importance of healthcare management in the development of high-performing systems, the path by which countries may develop and sustain a professional healthcare management workforce has not been articulated. Accordingly, we sought to identify a set of common themes in the establishment of a professional workforce of healthcare managers in low- and middle...
متن کاملChanging Interaction Dynamics in Hierarchical Groups: Evidence from a Role Expansion Field Experiment in Healthcare
*Authors contributed equally and are listed in alphabetic order. We wish to express our appreciation to the staff and leadership of the healthcare centers in which we conducted this research. This work would not have been possible without their welcoming us to study their role change experience and embracing the idea of wearing sensors. We gratefully acknowledge Paul D. Cleary and Yuna Lee for ...
متن کاملCharity Auctions: a Field Experiment*
Auctions are a popular way to raise money for charities, but relatively little is known, either theoretically or empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. We conduct field experiments to see which sealed bid format, first price, second price or all-pay, raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated by the first price auc...
متن کاملIndirect Reciprocity; A Field Experiment.
Indirect reciprocity involves cooperative acts towards strangers, either in response to their kindness to third parties (downstream) or after receiving kindness from others oneself (upstream). It is considered to be important for the evolution of cooperative behavior amongst humans. Though it has been widely studied theoretically, the empirical evidence of indirect reciprocity has thus far been...
متن کاملRewarding Volunteers: A Field Experiment
We conducted a field experiment with the American Red Cross to study the effects of economic incentives on volunteer activities. The experiment was designed to assess local and short-term effects, but also spatial and temporal substitution, heterogeneity and spillovers. Subjects offered $5, $10, and $15 gift cards to give blood were more likely to donate, and more so for the higher reward value...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1058-6407', '1530-9134']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12471