Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299934 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17006
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the impact of ethics and integrity training on police officers in Ghana through a randomized field experiment. The program, informed by theoretical work on the role of identity and motivation in organizations, aimed to re-activate intrinsic motivations to serve the public, and to create a new shared identity of "Agent of Change." Data generated by an endline survey conducted 20 months post training, show that the program positively affected officers' values and beliefs regarding on-the-job unethical behavior and improved their attitudes toward citizens. The training also lowered officers' propensity to behave unethically, as measured by an incentivized cheating game conducted at endline. District-level administrative data for a subsample of districts are consistent with a significant impact of the program on officers' field behavior in the short-run.
Subjects: 
ethics training
traffic police
experiment
JEL: 
H76
K42
M53
D73
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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