# **Table 6: Intrinsic Motivation of Bureaucrats**

## **Dependent Variable: Completion Binary [yes=1] Standard Errors: Clustered by Organization Interactions in Deviation from Mean OLS Estimates**

||**(1) PSM: Policy**<br>**Making**|**(2) PSM:**<br>**Compassion**|**(3) PSM: Public**<br>**Interest**|**(4) PSM: Self-**<br>**Sacrifice**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**CS-Autonomy**|0.28***|0.34***|0.34***|0.28***|
||(0.04)|(0.04)|(0.06)|(0.06)|
|**CS-Incentives/Monitoring**|-0.14***|-0.19***|-0.20***|-0.16***|
||(0.05)|(0.04)|(0.05)|(0.05)|
|**CS-Other**|-0.09***|-0.11***|-0.11***|-0.08***|
||(0.03)|(0.01)|(0.03)|(0.03)|
|**CS-Incentives/Monitoring x PSM - Policy Making**|-0.05**<br>(0.02)||||
|**PSM - Policy Making**|0.02||||
||(0.02)||||
|**CS-Incentives/Monitoring x PSM - Compassion**||0.08***<br>(0.02)|||
|**PSM - Compassion**||-0.08***<br>(0.01)|||
|**CS-Incentives/Monitoring x PSM - Public Interest**|||0.12***<br>(0.04)||
|**PSM - Public Interest**|||-0.09***<br>(0.03)||
|**CS-Incentives/Monitoring x PSM - Sacrifice**||||0.04<br>(0.04)|
|**PSM - Sacrifice**||||-0.04***<br>(0.01)|
|**Noise, General and Capital Controls**|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|
|**Project Controls**|Yes|Yes|Yes|Yes|
|**Fixed Effects**|Project Type,<br>Sector|Project Type,<br>Sector|Project Type,<br>Sector|Project Type,<br>Sector|
|**Observations (clusters)**|3620 (30)|3620 (30)|3620 (30)|3620 (30)|

**Notes:** *** denotes significance at 1%, ** at 5%, and * at 10% level. Standard errors are in parentheses, and are clustered by organization throughout. All columns report OLS estimates. The dependent variable in all columns is a dummy variable that takes the value 1 if the project is completed and 0 otherwise. The variable with which management scores are interacted is z-score defined across the 30 organizations we study. In Columns 1 through 4, the variables represent organization averages of aggregate Perry Public Service Motivation scores on the sub-categories of attraction to policy making, compassion for underprivileged people, commitment to the public interest, and self-sacrifice respectively. Project Type fixed effects relate to whether the primary classification of the project is 'Advocacy and Policy Development', 'Financial & Budget Management', 'ICT Management and Research', 'Monitoring, Training and Personnel Management', 'Physical infrastructure', 'Permits and Regulation' or 'Procurement'. Sector fixed effects relate to whether the project is in the administration, environment, finance, infrastructure, security/diplomacy/justice or social sector. Project controls comprise project-level controls for whether the project is regularly implemented by the organization or a one off, whether the project is a bundle of interconnected outputs, and whether the division has to coordinate with actors external to government to implement the project. Capital controls comprise a count of the number of interviews undertaken, which is a close approximation of the total number of employees. General controls comprise organization-level controls for the share of the workforce with degrees, the share of the workforce with postgraduate qualifications, and the span of control. Noise controls are averages of indicators of the seniority, gender, and tenure of all respondents, the average time of day the interview was conducted and of the reliability of the information as coded by the interviewer. Figures are rounded to two decimal places.