Professor Nava Ashraf

Psychology and Economics Programme Co-Director, Professor of Economics and Research Director, Marshall Institute of Philanthropy and Entrepreneurship

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7955 6992

Email:

n.ashraf1@lse.ac.uk

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Development
Economics of Environment and Energy

Biography

Professor Nava Ashraf's current research interests are:

Psychology and Economics
Development Economics
Economics of the Family

Latest

Development Discussion Papers

Losing Prosociality in the Quest for Talent? Sorting, Selection, and Productivity in the Delivery of Public Services

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...

Development Discussion Papers

Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

14 August 2013

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott Lee

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...

Development Discussion Papers

No Margin, no Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for public service delivery

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...