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Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Brazil

Zamboni, Yves; Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

audit risk by about 20 percentage points reduced the proportion of procurement processes with evidence of corruption by … about 15 percentage points and the share of audited resources involved in corruption by about 10 percentage points. We show … that these results are invariant to alternative corruption codings that have been used in prior literature. In contrast, we …

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Affirmative Action through Minority Reserves: An Experimental Study on School Choice

Klijn, Flip; Pais, Joana; Vorsatz, Marc - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

Minority reserves are an affirmative action policy proposed by Hafalir et al. (2013) in the context of school choice. We study in the laboratory the effect of minority reserves on the outcomes of two prominent matching mechanisms, the Gale-Shapley and the Top Trading Cycles mechanisms. Our first...

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Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment

Klijn, Flip; Pais, Joana; Vorsatz, Marc - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is inﬂuenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show that (a) the GaleShapley...

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Inequality and Public Resource Allocation

Esteban, Joan; Ray, Debraj - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003

We set up a signaling game where individuals differ in ability and wealth. Higher ability means larger benefit supported by the government. Costly signals are used to transmit information regarding own deservingness. However, capital market imperfections may perturb the signals by limiting the...

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Are Rules-based Government Programs Shielded from Special-Interest Politics? Evidence from Revenue-Sharing Transfers in Brazil

Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

Manipulation of government finances for the benefit of narrowly defined groups is usually thought to be limited to the part of the budget over which politicians exercise discretion in the short run, such as earmarks. Analyzing a revenue-sharing program between the central and local governments...

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Procurement Design with Corruption

Burguet, Roberto - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

This paper investigates the design of optimal procurement mechanisms in the presence of corruption. After the sponsor …

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Business Literacy and Development: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico

Calderón, Gabriela; Cunha, Jesse M.; Giorgi, Giacomo De - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

A large share of the poor in developing countries run small enterprises, often earning low incomes. This paper explores whether the poor performance of businesses can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female...

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The Role of Incidental variables of Time in Mood Assessment

Hogarth, Robin; Portell, Mariona; Cuxart, Anna - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

Determining what influences mood is important for theories of emotion and research on subjective well-being. We consider three sets of factors: activities in which people are engaged; individual differences; and incidental variables that capture when mood is measured, e.g., time-of-day. These...

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Longer-term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States

Rodríquez-Planas, Núria - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an afterschool program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards with the objective to improve...

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Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives Longer-term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial

Rodriguez-Planas, Núria - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term impacts of an afterschool program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend program activities, complete high-school and enroll in...

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