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Raising the effectiveness of Italy’s public sector is more urgent than ever. It will be key to revive investment and productivity and improve access to quality public services for the most vulnerable. The quality of public goods and services is variable, weakening Italy’s resilience to...
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We assess the effect of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws on public corruption in the United States. Specifically, we investigate the impact of switching from a weak to a strong state-level FOIA law on corruption convictions of state and local government officials. The evidence suggests...
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with other standard index number formulae and the bias in the index can be determined. The present paper presents most of … the known results on this bias (and derives some new ones) in a coherent framework using a simple identity from the … unit value into more homogeneous subgroups reduce the unit value bias? The answer seems to be: probably yes. …
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least squares. It studies, by way of an extensive simulation experiment, the bias of the slope parameter estimator induced … an asymptotic bias for the estimator. …
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to start the ethics approval process; and research transparency, including how to prevent publication bias and data …
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We study the effects of unequal representation in the interest-group system on the degree of information transmission between a lobbyist and a policy-maker. Employing a dynamic cheap-talk model in which the lobbyist cares instrumentally about his reputation for truth telling, we show that the...
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In this chapter we survey the empirical literature on media bias, with a focus on partisan and ideological biases …. First, we discuss the methods used to measure the relative positions of media outlets. We divide bias into two categories …, explicit and implicit bias. We group existing measures of implicit bias into three categories: measures based on comparing …
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