Motivating volunteer health workers in an African capital city
研究针对几内亚比绍首都所有无薪社区健康工作者，测试荣誉奖和视频两种非金钱激励对家庭健康的影响，发现荣誉奖能显著改善儿童健康。
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are central to health systems. Still, they are typically unpaid volunteers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper follows all the CHWs in the capital city of Guinea-Bissau, who are non-salaried, and tests the impact of non-financial incentives on health indicators. We analyze two randomized interventions for CHWs: (i) an honorific award aimed at raising their social status; (ii) a video treatment aimed at increasing their perceived task significance. While employing administrative and survey data, we find that the social status intervention, differently from the task significance one, causes clear improvements in household health, particularly for young children.