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Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of those who are appointed. First, if skilled individuals shy away from politics because of higher opportunities in the private sector, an increase in politicians' pay may change...
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Rates of Return to University Education: The Regression Discontinuity Design
Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Wei, Zhichao; Zhao, Guochang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university … average treatment effects might understate the true effects of the university expansion program introduced in China in 1999 …
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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma … and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and inferences, and how they interact with material incentives. It then … and Ramsey taxation. Incorporating agents' imperfect knowledge of the distribution of preferences opens up to analysis …
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Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit
Drago, Francesco; Nannicini, Tommaso; Sobbrio, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
effect of newspapers on government efficiency is larger when mayors are not term-limited and thus face reelection incentives …
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Competing on Good Politicians
Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
selection effect than by reelection incentives. …
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...
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The Effects of Access to Health Insurance for Informally Employed Individuals in Peru
Bernal, Noelia; Carpio, Miguel A.; Klein, Tobias J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Many developing countries have recently increased health insurance coverage at a large scale. While it is commonly believed that this has positive effects, to date, it is not well understood through which channels health insurance coverage contributes to the well-being of individuals. More...
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Screening for Honesty
Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We report the results of a field experiment on honesty conducted on 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service. Each soldier rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point reported, the soldier received an...
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Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program: Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme
Zimmermann, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a...
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New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...
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