%0 Report
        %A Harris, Donna
%A Borcan, Oana
%A Serra, Danila
%A Telli, Henry
%A Schettini, Bruno
%A Dercon, Stefan
        %T Proud to Belong: The Impact of Ethics Training on Police Officers in Ghana
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 17006
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17006
        %X 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.
        %K ethics training
%K traffic police
%K experiment