Christian Bøtcher Jacobsen, Anne Mette Kjeldsen, and I finally had our paper ‘Choir of Believers? Experimental and Longitudinal Evidence on Response Bias and Public Service Motivation’ published. It’s been a long journey with COVID-19, lockdowns, a mountainbike accident, and much more! However, we are very happy with the result. We show that there is no measurable response bias in public service motivation (a most likely case?) when we randomly assign respondents (Danish physiotherapists) to either a baseline survey invitation, a public service motivation invitation, and an invitation with a monetary incentive attached. Although there are more answers in the experimental group with a monetary incentive, there are no measurable differences in the usual measures of public service motivation. Also, we do not find indications that public service motivated physiotherapists stay in survey panels. The study is published in the International Public Management Journal.
