When Officials Don't Know What They Don't Know: Dunning-Kruger Effect in the Case of Green Budgeting for Local Government

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10.2991/icied-17.2018.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Dunning-Kruger effect, green budgeting, government officials

Abstract

This paper extends the key findings of Kruger and Dunning (1999) showing that people who are unskilled in a given domain tend to be unaware of their lack of skills; to government circle that is supposed to be filled by professionals. This paper compares individual government officials' self-assessment of their offices' ability in performing certain tasks related to green budgeting, to their responses to questions that implicitly assess their actual ability to perform such tasks. Consistent with Kruger and Dunning (1999), individuals who have sufficient knowledge and expertise in a given domain tend to have more accurate self-assessment when they are asked to rate their own expertise, and vice versa. This paper also discusses the theoretical underpinning of how compensation structure is related to Dunning-Kruger effect on policy design and how tying the outcome with compensation can increase the learning

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alvin Ulido Lumbanraja
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - When Officials Don't Know What They Don't Know: Dunning-Kruger Effect in the Case of Green Budgeting for Local Government
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Indonesian Economy and Development (ICIED 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 100
EP  - 111
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icied-17.2018.20
DO  - 10.2991/icied-17.2018.20
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