Pro-Social Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.10.011

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Pro-Social Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service

dc.contributor.author	Banuri, Sheheryar
dc.contributor.author	Keefer, Philip
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-10T20:22:45Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-10T20:22:45Z
dc.date.issued	2016-04
dc.description.abstract	We investigate the interaction of pro-social motivation and wages in pro-social organizations with a novel subject pool, 1700 students destined for the private and public sectors in Indonesia, using a measure of pro-social motivation that exactly matches the mission of the organization. Three novel conclusions emerge. Consistent with a common, but untested, assumption in the theoretical literature, workers with greater pro-social motivation exert higher real effort. However, high pay attracts less pro-socially motivated individuals. Furthermore, we also test whether a real world pro-social organization (the Indonesian Ministry of Finance) attracts pro-socially motivated workers. We find that prospective entrants into the Indonesian Ministry of Finance exhibit higher levels of pro-social motivation than a comparable sample of general workers.	en
dc.identifier.citation	European Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.10.011
dc.identifier.issn	0014-2921
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/23935
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	Public sector reform
dc.subject	civil service
dc.subject	motivation
dc.title	Pro-Social Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Pro-Social Motivation, Effort and the Call to Public Service
okr.date.disclosure	2019-12-15
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-24T02:26:21.291287Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.10.011
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/23935
okr.identifier.report	104060
okr.journal.nbpages	139-64
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292115001646
okr.relation.associatedurl	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16945
okr.topic	Social Development::Civil Society
okr.topic	Social Development::Social Analysis
okr.topic	Public Sector Development::Public Sector Management and Reform
okr.unit	Development Research Group (DECRG)
okr.volume	83