

Young professional, World Bank | Alumnus, Harvard University, Global Health Corps, Oxford University, University of Nigeria | Physician | RTs≠ endorsement
…increasing their pay. The same worker earns 10% more when managed by a manager she is connected to. Managers devote more resources to connected workers at the expense of high productivity workers. In an experiment, they look at the effect of giving people a bonus based on the performance of the workers they manage. In that context, favoritism disappears and managers start favoring high ability workers, “crowding out” this bad behavior. In this fruit farm, social preferences created a gap between the agent’s interest and the organizat…
…o villages where the agents had different politics and religion. Comparing the two, they found that people were less likely to accept training from someone with different politics and religion, and that in the villages with different agents, even more people accepted training, but primarily …
…ruism, they create a “targeting bias’’ that leads people to compete with others for those benefits. When we care about some people more than others, that can have negative effects on how much people work when they see those disparate outcomes.