Performance Pay Increases Dog Vaccinations to Reduce Human Rabies
| dc.creator | Lankester, Felix | |
| dc.creator | Manian, Shanthi | |
| dc.creator | Yoder, Jonathan | |
| dc.date | 2025-08-08T13:41:51Z | |
| dc.date | 2025-08-08T13:41:51Z | |
| dc.date | 2024-09-06 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-01T00:34:48Z | |
| dc.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. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.format | text/plain | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/b3d937bb-cd0b-4de5-8ce4-94fda83414d2 | |
| dc.identifier | The World Bank Economic Review | |
| dc.identifier | 0258-6770 (print) | |
| dc.identifier | 1564-698X (online) | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43564 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/406566 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank | |
| dc.relation | World Bank Economic Review | |
| dc.relation | World Bank Economic Review; 39 (3) | |
| dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO | |
| dc.rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo | |
| dc.rights | World Bank | |
| dc.subject | INCENTIVES | |
| dc.subject | PERFORMANCE PAY | |
| dc.subject | VACCINATION | |
| dc.subject | RABIES | |
| dc.title | Performance Pay Increases Dog Vaccinations to Reduce Human Rabies | |
| dc.type | Journal Article |