TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Harris, Donna
AU  - Borcan, Oana
AU  - Serra, Danila
AU  - Telli, Henry
AU  - Schettini, Bruno
AU  - Dercon, Stefan
        TI  - Proud to Belong: The Impact of Ethics Training on Police Officers in Ghana
        PY  - 2024/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17006
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17006
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - ethics training
KW  - traffic police
KW  - experiment
        ER  -