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voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub … capacity to improve outcomes. In such settings, major transparency related reforms might be needed to improve public service …
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career … three levels of transparency under which career concerns are predicted to affect behavior differently, and test the model …'s key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out – transparency negatively …
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This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil’s recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of federally-transferred funds, it estimates the effects of the disclosure of local government...
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We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as if they were purely...
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The impact of transparency on the extent of reciprocal behavior is investigated in a simple repeated gift exchange … transparent situation where efforts are revealed to the principals. However, there is no significant impact of transparency on … average effort as non-transparency leads to a stronger diversity in behavioral patterns such that at the same time the …
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suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling that team production often lacks … transparency about individual contributions despite negligible costs for providing such information. We offer a rationale for this … by demonstrating that transparency can actually hurt incentives. In the presence of career concerns information on the …
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-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … important. Knowledge about the economy ranks somewhere in between. …
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the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …
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direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …
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