Incentives, Evidence, and Reminders for Bureaucrats: Overcoming Barriers to Policy Scale Up

Patrick Agte, Daniel Morales, Christopher A. Neilson, Sebastián Otero, Gautam Rao, "Incentives, Evidence, and Reminders for Bureaucrats: Overcoming Barriers to Policy Scale Up", Conditionally accepted, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2026, doi: 10.3386/w35291.

@unpublished{ rd-lastmileave_2026,
  title = {Incentives, Evidence, and Reminders for Bureaucrats: Overcoming Barriers to Policy Scale Up},
  author = {Agte, Patrick and Morales, Daniel and Neilson, Christopher A. and Otero, Sebastián and Rao, Gautam},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Conditionally accepted, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics},
  doi = {10.3386/w35291},
  abstract = {Scaling up effective policies often requires the attention of frontline bureaucrats with many competing responsibilities. In a nationwide scale-up experiment in the Dominican Republic, this paper tests whether sharing research evidence, offering incentives, providing implementation support, and sending reminders improve compliance with an evidence-based education policy.},
  url = {https://www.nber.org/papers/w35291}
}