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Can Institutions Be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India … collaborated with researchers at US and Indian universities to design and implement four interventions to improve police … performance and the public’s perception of the police in 162 police stations (covering over one-fifth of the State’s police …
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Does Regulation of Built-In Security Reduce Crime? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Ours, Jan C van; Vollaard, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
As of 1999, all new-built homes in the Netherlands have to have burglary-proof windows and doors. We provide evidence that this large-scale government intervention in the use of self-protective measures lowers crime and improves social welfare. We find the regulatory change to have reduced...
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The engine immobilizer: a non-starter for car thieves
Ours, Jan C van; Vollaard, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strenghtening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobilizer, a simple and low-cost anti-theft device, mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union as of...
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Computing Crime: Information Technology, Police Effectiveness and the Organization of Policing
Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
How does information technology (IT) affect the organization of police work? How does it in turn affect police crime …-fighting effectiveness? To answer these questions, we construct a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. We find that … while IT adoption had substantial effects on a wide range of police organizational practices, it had, by itself, a …
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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
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On the political economics of tax reforms
Castanheira, Micael; Nicodème, Gaëtan; Profeta, Paola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an "optimal" tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be neither efficient economically nor efficient at redistributing income. With a focus on personal income taxes, this paper reviews the political economics literature on tax...
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
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Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
standards, we use data from the Brazilian media and federal police to document that very large oil output increases alleged …
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Ideologues: Explaining Partisanship and Persistence in Politics (and Elsewhere)
Buehler, Benno; Kessler, Anke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper provides an explanation for why political leaders may want to adopt ideological positions and maintain them over time even in the face of conflicting evidence. We study a dynamic framework in which politicians are better informed than the voting public about an underlying state of...
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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and institutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of revolutions, are the main determinants of...
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