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We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent...
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This paper looks at public and private sector wages interactions since the 1960s in the euro area, euro area countries and a number of other OECD countries. The paper reports, first, a strong positive annual contemporaneous correlation of public and private sector wages over the business cycle;...
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Public institutions in the developing world are often characterized by institutional capture or decay. Yet, India … institutions in India, enjoys substantial powers, and conducts some of the longest elections in the world. We use a process … bureaucratic actors take advantage of moments of political opportunity, those aspects of the bureaucracy that can credibly meet …
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operating a construction business in Chennai, Southern India. Part A of the case traces his first business ventures from 1978 to …
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local rural development officials across India, including time-usage diaries which measure their daily behavior, we provide …
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