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welfare. The elasticity of demand faced by hospitals increased post-reform, giving hospitals potentially large incentives to … improve their quality of care and find suggestive evidence that hospitals responded strongly to the enhanced incentives due to …
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No behavior sits in a vacuum, and one behavior can greatly affect what happens next. We propose a conceptual frame within which a broad range of behavioral spillovers can be accounted for when applying behavioral science to policy challenges. We consider behaviors which take place sequentially...
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We conduct a controlled lab-field experiment to directly test the short-run spillover effects of one-off financial … incentives in health. We consider how incentives affect effort in a physical activity task – and then how they spillover to … subsequent eating behaviour. Compared to a control group, we find that low incentives increase effort and have little effect on …
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Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralisation on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralisation’s effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize economic data...
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strengthens incentives for governments to be responsive. This suggests that there is a role both for democratic institutions and …
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The welfare economic method for analyzing the case for government intervention is often critized for ignoring the political determination of policies. The standard method of accounting for this critique studies the case for intervention under the constraint that the level of the instrument in...
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This paper explores the relationship between ethnic diversity and local school funding in Kenyan primary schools. The empirical results paint a picture of pervasive local collective action problems in ethnically diverse Kenyan primary schools. Local ethnic diversity is robustly associated with...
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I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics that it unleashes. The national effects of decentralization are simply the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must first understand how local government works. This paper proposes a theory of...
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Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization's effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize econometric results...
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