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Incentives and invention in universities

Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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Free to choose?: reform and demand response in the English National Health Service

Gaynor, Martin; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

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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Because I'm worth it: a lab-field experiment on the spillover effects of incentives in health

Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

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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Like ripples on a pond: behavioral spillovers and their implications for research and policy

Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

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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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil

Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls on government behavior. Oil-rich municipalities experience increases in revenues and report corresponding increases in spending on public goods and services. However, survey data and...

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Does public investment spur the land market?: evidence from transport improvement in Beijing

Wu, Wenjie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Over 140 billion CNY (1GBP=10CNY) has been spent between 2000 and 2012 in Beijing on the construction of new rail transit lines. This massive public investment allows me to examine the consequences of transport improvements for land prices near rail stations. Using unique vacant parcel-specific...

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Does better rail access improve homeowners’ happiness?: evidence based on micro surveys in Beijing

Wu, Wenjie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Development of urban transport infrastructures is a key policy focus---particularly in countries like China which have experienced fast urbanisation over the past decade. While existing studies provide marginal values for rail access on the real estate market, little is known about the...

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Women in politics: evidence from the Indian states

Clots-Figueras, Irma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper uses panel data from the 16 main states in India during the period 1967- 1999 to study the effects of having higher female representation in the State Legislatures on public goods, policy and expenditure. I find that women legislators make different decisions than men legislators....

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Urban growth drivers in a Europe of sticky people and implicit boundaries

Cheshire, Paul; Magrini, Stefano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

We investigate urban GDP per capita growth across the EU12 using data for functionally defined cities—rather than administrative regions. We test hypotheses on the role of human capital, EU integration and fragmentation of urban government and explore spatial dependence and mechanisms of...

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The effects of decentralisation on public investment: evidence and four lessons from Bolivia and Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

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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