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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
: doubling household consumption increases the bribery probability by 0.2-0.4 percentage points in Peru, compared to a bribery … rate of 0.8%; doubling household expenditure in Uganda increases the bribery probability by 1.2 percentage points compared … to a bribery rate of 17%. The income elasticity of the bribe amount cannot be precisely estimated in Peru, but is about 0 …
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Sovereign Default and Tax-smoothing in the Shadow of Corruption and Institutional Weakness
Azzimonti, Marina; Mitra, Nirvana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Emerging countries exhibit volatile fiscal policies and frequent sovereign debt crises, that significantly diminish the well-being of their citizens. International advisors typically suggest developed-world solutions as a remedy. We argue that the root of the problem lies in the institutional...
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The Real State : Inside the Congo's Traffic Police Agency
Sanchez de la Sierra, Raul; Titeca, Kristof; Xie, Haoyang; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's traffic police agency is to manage traffic and to enforce the traffic code. We first document that, in the capital's branch, Kinshasa, traffic violation fines account for only...
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How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims' demand for public services, raising bribery … are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of … the police, where the increase in bribery comes principally through increased use of the police. For the judiciary the …
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings …-reported compensation in the public sector. Using the conditions of labour market equilibrium, we develop an aggregate measure of bribery … and find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460m and 580m U.S. dollars (0 …
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Leadership and influence : evidence from an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision
D'Adda, Giovanna - 2011
This paper studies the effect of leadership on the level and evolution of pro-social behavior using an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision. Participants decide how much to contribute to an actual conservation project. They can then revise their donations after being...
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Decentralization in Developing Economies
Gadenne, Lucie; Singhal, Monica - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 581-604
Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...
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Political instability and discontinuity in Nigeria: The pre-colonial past and public goods provision under colonial and post-colonial political orders
Papaioannou, Kostadis Jason; Dalrymple-Smith, Angus Edwin - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 10 (2015) 1, pp. 40-53
This article explores the relative importance of pre-colonial institutional capacity and the effects of periods of peace and stability on long-term development outcomes in Nigeria. We use data on education, health, and public works at a provincial level from a variety of colonial and Nigerian...
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Power outages and economic growth in Africa
Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - In: Energy Economics 38 (2013) C, pp. 19-23
This paper estimates the total effect of power outages on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1995–2007. We pay close attention both to potential errors of measurement of African economic growth and to the endogeneity of outages. As suggested by Henderson et al. (American...
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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