国发院/经院发展与公共财政系列讲座：

Influence Activities and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in China

时间：2019年12月25日（周三）14：00-15：30

地点：北大国发院致福轩会议室

主持人：郝煜、李力行、刘冲、席天扬、张晓波

主讲人：王绍达

题目：Influence Activities and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in China

摘要：Subjective performance evaluation is widely used by firms and governments to provide work incentives. However, delegating evaluation power to senior leadership could induce influence activities: agents might devote much efforts to please their supervisors, rather than focusing on productive tasks that benefit their organizations. We conduct a large-scale randomized field experiment among Chinese local government employees and provide the first rigorous empirical evidence on the existence and implications of influence activities. We find that state employees are able to impose evaluator-specific influence to affect evaluation outcomes, and that this process could be partly observed by their co-workers. Furthermore, introducing uncertainty in the identity of the evaluator, which discourages evaluator-specific influence activities, can significantly improve the work performance of state employees.

主讲人简介：

Shaoda Wang is an applied economist based at the University of Chicago. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Economics, and will be joining the Harris School of Public Policy as an assistant professor in 2021. His research interests include political economy, development economics, and environmental economics. Prior to Chicago, he received his BA from Peking University and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.