Episode 44: Alessandra Fenizia on Managers and Productivity in the Public Sector

Alessandra Fenizia is an Assistant Professor of Economics at George Washington University.

The paper discussed in this episode is “Managers and Productivity in the Public Sector”, by Alessandra Fenizia, and which was published in Econometrica in 2022.

Other papers discussed during this episode include:

Bertrand, M., & Schoar, A. (2003). Managing with style: The effect of managers on firm policies. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(4), 1169-1208.'

Bandiera, O., Barankay, I., & Rasul, I. (2007). Incentives for managers and inequality among workers: Evidence from a firm-level experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(2), 729-773.

Janke, K., Propper, C., & Sadun, R. (2019). The impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS (No. w25853). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Lazear, E. P., Shaw, K. L., & Stanton, C. T. (2015). The value of bosses. Journal of Labor Economics, 33(4), 823-861.

Silver, D. (2021). Haste or Waste? Peer pressure and productivity in the emergency department. The Review of Economic Studies, 88(3), 1385-1417.