The Personnel Economics of the State

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Reducing bureaucratic corruption: Interdisciplinary perspectives on what works (2018, unknown): “In summary, despite the topic’s clear importance and recent attention to bureaucratic recruitment policies more broadly (see Finan et al. 2017 for a review), the effects of meritocratic recruitment on corruption have yet to be rigorously studied.”
Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations (2020, background): “See, among others, Fisman et al. (2014). (24)This corresponds to an election where the winning party receives at most 52.”
Financial Incentives as Signals: Experimental Evidence from the Recruitment of Village Promoters in Uganda (2019, background): “…consumers may infer the product’s quality from its price (Milgrom and Roberts 1986; Heffetz and Shayo 2009) and this may affect the number and the types of consumers.8 Third, my results contribute to the emerging empirical evidence on selection in the public sector (Finan et al. 2015 for a review).”
Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase in Indonesia (2017, background): “Thus, the teachers in our study are typical of public-sector employees in many low- and middle-income countries, who hold highly coveted jobs and enjoy a significant wage premium relative to their private-sector counterparts with similar observable characteristics (Finan, Olken, and Pande 2017).”