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Professor of Economics and Research Director, Marshall Institute of Philanthropy and Entrepreneurship
Professor Nava Ashraf's current research interests are:
28 July 2014
Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott Lee
We embed a field experiment in a nationwide recruitment drive for nurses in Zambia to test whether career benefits attract talent at the expense of prosocial motivation. We randomize the offer of career benefits at the r... Read more...
14 August 2013
Organizations often use awards to incentivize performance. We design a field experiment to unbundle the mechanisms through which awards may affect behavior: by facilitating social comparison and by conferring recognition... Read more...
01 January 2012
Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Kelsey Jack
A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a fiel... Read more...