Incentivizing and retaining public servants in remote areas: A discrete choice experiment with agricultural extension agents in Ethiopia
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- Mekdim D. Regassa & Gashaw T. Abate & Zaneta Kubik, 2021. "Incentivising and retaining public servants in remote areas: A discrete choice experiment with agricultural extension agents in Ethiopia," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 72(3), pages 878-900, September.
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ETHIOPIA; EAST AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA; AFRICA; incentives; work force; public services; rural areas; agricultural extension; agricultural extension agents; time allocation and labor supply; government policy; remoteness;
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2020-07-27 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DCM-2020-07-27 (Discrete Choice Models)
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- Gershon Feder & Jock R. Anderson & Regina Birner & Klaus Deininger, 2010. "Promises and Realities of Community-Based Agricultural Extension," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Keijiro Otsuka & Kaliappa Kalirajan (ed.), Community, Market and State in Development, chapter 12, pages 187-208, Palgrave Macmillan.