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Promotion Tournaments

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Economics (general)RCT
Piece-Rate Financial Incentive Orthogonality to Promotion Tournaments
Regression analysis showed that interaction terms between short-term piece-rate bonuses and meritocratic promotion incentives on household visit output were statistically non-significant, confirming that career advancement tournaments function independently of short-run cash incentives.
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Tournament Fiscal Leverage in Public Service
Only 9 supervisor positions became vacant during the study (resulting in 4 meritocratic promotions in the treatment group), yet establishing merit-based advancement rules induced a 22% increase in total household visits (+1.497 visits per worker) across the entire 2,009-worker pool.