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Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption …This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect … of corruption across municipalities and controlling for student, school, and municipal characteristics, we find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570795
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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404596
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Social Change
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822855
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Immigrants and Religion
Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new country. This paper considers the interaction between the Economics of Religion and the Economics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010760008
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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884312
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Emigration, Remittances and Corruption Experience of Those Staying Behind
Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959534
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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
are laid out and credibly enforced. Our findings suggest a changing anatomy of corruption, where transgressors keep one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959836
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Give and You Shall Receive: The Emergence of Welfare-Reducing Reciprocity
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Vorster, Melissa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...
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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...
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Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … suggest that (a) lobbying and corruption are fundamentally different, (b) political institutions play a major role in …
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