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Using a model of probabilistic voting, we analyse the impact of aid on the political equilibrium in the recipient country or region. We consider two kinds of politicians: the benevolent one is interested in promoting social welfare whereas the other one is clientelistic, his only goal being to...
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In this Paper we argue that the political incentives that resource endowments generate are the key to understanding whether or not they are a curse. We show: (1) politicians tend to over-extract natural resources relative to the efficient extraction path because they discount the future too...
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discretion which allows an immediate advancement of their cause and promotion discretion ("patronage") which allows a biasing of … that patronage may be strictly positive in both of them. We also apply the second setting to the case of corruption. …
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physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii …) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the … university graduates, Spanish physicians are the ones most often coupled to partners with the same educational level and/or same …
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implications in rural Pakistan taking into account the heterogeneity of households' preferences. Our results show that exogenous …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence...
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report about an experiment with 508 participants designed to test whether this fundamental trade-off is actually relevant. In …
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This paper tests the insiders’ dilemma hypothesis in a laboratory experiment. The insiders’ dilemma means that a …
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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