A Field-worker Incentive Experimental Study

Chang, Ming; Cernada, George P.; Sun, T. H.

doi:10.2307/1965248

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“…In the evaluation of the Taiwan Maximum Acceptance Study in the 1970s, women living in areas where field workers were given bonuses for each FP acceptor were three times as likely to have accepted an IUD in the past year (9% vs 3%) and almost twice as likely to have accepted the IUD, pill or condom (21% vs 11%) compared to those living in areas where the PBIs were absent. 15 A study in India found that CBDs reported a substantial increase in FP counselling after they were given the opportunity to retain sales commissions from FP commodities. 16…”

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Review of performance-based incentives in community-based family planning programmes

Bellows¹,

Askew²,

Bellows

2014

J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care

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BackgroundOne strategy for improving family planning (FP) uptake at the community level is the use of performance-based incentives (PBIs), which offer community distributors financial incentives to recruit more users of FP. This article examines the use of PBIs in community-based FP programmes via a literature search of the peer-reviewed and grey literature conducted in April 2013.ResultsA total of 28 community-based FP programmes in 21 countries were identified as having used PBIs. The most common approach was a sales commission model where distributors received commission for FP products sold, while a referral payment model for long-term methods was also used extensively. Six evaluations were identified that specifically examined the impact of the PBI in community-based FP programmes. Overall, the results of the evaluations are mixed and more research is needed; however, the findings suggest that easy-to-understand PBIs can be successful in increasing the use of FP at the community level.ConclusionFor future use of PBIs in community-based FP programmes it is important to consider the ethics of incentivising FP and ensuring that PBIs are non-coercive and choice-enhancing.

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“…Another programme in Thailand paid a retrospective performance payment relative to the performance of other workers. 15 19 25 A bonus approach has the advantage of applying to all methods; however, it may be challenging to monitor and verify.…”

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Review of performance-based incentives in community-based family planning programmes

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Askew²,

Bellows

2014

J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care

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“…spillovers), an extraordinarily sophisticated protocol for the time. A slightly later family planning experiment (Chang et al 1972), also in Taiwan, randomized ten experimental counties in which field workers received a monetary bonus for every woman who accepted birth control 24 , versus ten control counties. Testing marginal financial incentives for health or similar workers has returned as an active (and supposedly cutting-edge) area of research.…”

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The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences

Jamison

2019

Journal of Causal Inference

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Although the concept of randomized assignment in order to control for extraneous confounding factors reaches back hundreds of years, the first empirical use appears to have been in an 1835 trial of homeopathic medicine. Throughout the 19th century there was a growing awareness of the need for comparison groups, albeit often without the realization that randomization could be a clean method to achieve that goal. In the second and more crucial phase of this history, four separate but related disciplines introduced randomized control trials within a few years of one another in the 1920s: agricultural science; clinical medicine; educational psychology; and social policy (specifically political science). This brought increasing rigor to fields that were focusing more on causal relationships. In a third phase, the 1950s through 1970s saw a surge of interest in more applied randomized experiments in economics and elsewhere – both in the lab and especially in the field.

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“…This study describes the results of a survey of several hundred field workers who provided family planning education and services to the people of Taiwan. These workers represented the major link between the public health administration and the people the government served [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. The study reviewed their knowledge about abortion availability, practice, and referrals and explored the relationship of their verbal statements on basic beliefs about value assessments of human life to ethical judgments they made about induced abortion.…”

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How Basic Beliefs about Human Life Relate to Ethical Judgments about Induced Abortion

Cernada

2008

Int Q Community Health Educ

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This survey explores family planning field workers' basic beliefs and value assessments related to a new human life and their relationship to their verbal statements of ethical judgments about induced abortion under varying circumstances in Taiwan. It also relates these beliefs to stated experience of abortion referrals. Implications for education and research with application to other countries and international social issues are discussed.

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A Field-worker Incentive Experimental Study

Cited by 10 publications

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Review of performance-based incentives in community-based family planning programmes

Review of performance-based incentives in community-based family planning programmes

The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences

How Basic Beliefs about Human Life Relate to Ethical Judgments about Induced Abortion

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