pedersen_2023_pay_for_performance

9,006 rated or chosen profiles from 1,501 respondents, in up to 3 tasks of 2 profiles varying on 8 attributes.

About this table

DescriptionUS Prolific respondents (May 2021; 1,501, recruited as White and Nonwhite samples) chose between and rated two versions of a city Community Activity Worker job in 3 pairs, varying total pay, performance bonuses, performance evaluation, community involvement, income and demographics, overtime and key job task. Forced choice plus a 1-7 ideal-job rating per job.
ReferencePedersen, M. J., Favero, N., & Park, J. (2023). Pay-for-performance, job attraction, and the prospects of bureaucratic representation in public organizations: Evidence from a conjoint experiment. Public Management Review.
DOI10.1080/14719037.2023.2245841
LicenceCC0 1.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NSHT68

Notes

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Size and shape

Respondents1,501
Rows (one per respondent, task and profile)9,006
Tasks per respondent (most)3
Profiles per task2
Attributes8
Tasks with no profile chosen0

Design

Topiclabour hiring, public administration
A profile representsproduct service
CountryUS
Language shownen
Language of stored levelsen
Task orderrecorded in the deposit
Profile positionrecorded in the deposit

Outcomes:

choiceWhich of the two jobs would you personally prefer? [choice, forced]
ratingTo what extent do jobs A and B reflect your ideal job arrangement? [rating, 1 (Definitely not ideal) to 7 (Definitely ideal)]

Columns

attr_community_demographicsattr_community_incomeattr_community_involvementattr_key_job_taskattr_overtime_workattr_performance_bonusesattr_performance_evaluationattr_total_paychoicecov_agecov_attention_passcov_duration_seccov_educationcov_employmentcov_gendercov_honestycov_incomecov_party_idcov_public_sectorcov_racecov_samplecov_stateidprofileratingtask

The layout (one row per respondent, task and profile; choice/rating outcomes; attr_ columns holding each attribute level as displayed) is defined in the IRW conjoint standard. What the outcomes asked is under Design above.

Get the data

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# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("pedersen_2023_pay_for_performance", source = "conj")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("pedersen_2023_pay_for_performance", source="conj")

How to cite

@article{Pedersen_2023, title={Pay-for-performance, job attraction, and the prospects of bureaucratic representation in public organizations: evidence from a conjoint experiment}, volume={27}, ISSN={1471-9045}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2023.2245841}, DOI={10.1080/14719037.2023.2245841}, number={1}, journal={Public Management Review}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Pedersen, Mogens Jin and Favero, Nathan and Park, Joohyung}, year={2023}, month=Aug, pages={273–296} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetirw_conjoint v4.2
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/qkye-q530
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv4.2
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0