The use of whistleblowing to challenge teacher absence in the developing world is worth considering, but its effectiveness can be dampened by offering monetary rewards for reporting absent colleagues, according to a field experiment conducted by Stefano Fiorin (Bocconi Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies and Department of Economics) with the collaboration of the Afghan Ministry of Education. “Moral aversion to being paid for harming others can reverse the effect of financial incentives,” explains Fiorin in the fourth video of the LEAP Talks series.
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Source: Phys.org