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Subjective Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior : Evidence from China
De Janvry, Alain; He, Guojun; Sadoulet, Elisabeth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Subjective performance evaluation is widely used by firms and governments to provide work incentives. However, delegating evaluation power to local leadership could induce influence activities: employees might devote too much effort to impressing/pleasing their evaluator, relative to working...
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Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service
Hanna, Rema - 2013
In this paper, we demonstrate that university students who cheat on a simple task in a laboratory setting are more likely to state a preference for entering public service. Importantly, we also show that cheating on this task is predictive of corrupt behavior by real government workers, implying...
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Screen Now, Save Later? The Trade-Off between Administrative Ordeals and Fraud
Aman-Rana, Shan; Gingerich, Daniel W.; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Screening requirements are common features of fraud and corruption mitigation efforts around the world. Yet imposing these requirements involves trade-offs between higher administrative costs, delayed benefits, and exclusion of genuine beneficiaries on one hand and lower fraud on the other. We...
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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development
Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...
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The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression, Beliefs, and Economic Outcomes
Bhat, Bhargav; De Quidt, Jonathan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We revisit two clinical trials that randomized depressed adults in India (n=775) to a brief course of psychotherapy or …
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Effect of Health Insurance in India : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...
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Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is …
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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India
Cook, C. Justin - 2020
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020
This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
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Some New Perspectives on India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009
In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on … financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has … the key challenge now facing India's policymakers on this front …
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