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Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs : Experimental Evidence from Indonesia

Cahyadi, Nur - 2018

investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and … targeted indicators, increasing usage of trained health professionals for childbirth dramatically and halving the share of …

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The Personnel Economics of the State

Finan, Frederico - 2015

Governments play a central role in facilitating economic development. Yet while economists have long emphasized the importance of government quality, historically they have paid less attention to the internal workings of the state and the individuals who provide the public services. This paper...

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Targeting the Poor : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2010

In developing countries, identifying the poor for redistribution or social insurance is challenging because the government lacks information about people's incomes. This paper reports the results of a field experiment conducted in 640 Indonesian villages that investigated two main approaches to...

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Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Olken, Benjamin A. - 2008

This paper presents an experiment where 48 Indonesian villages were randomly assigned to choose development projects through either representative-based meetings or direct election-based plebiscites. Plebiscites resulted in dramatically higher satisfaction among villagers, increased knowledge...

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Making Moves Matter : Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings

Khan, Adnan Q. - 2018

Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives. Yet we know little about whether this works, with heterogeneity in preferences over postings impacting effectiveness. We propose a performance-ranked serial dictatorship mechanism, whereby bureaucrats...

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Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery : Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2015

Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks that non-contractible quality will decline and that reform could be blocked by vested interests exactly where potential gains are greatest. We examine these issues by conducting...

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Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia

Olken, Benjamin A. - 2012

to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's block grant …. We find that the incentivized villages performed better on health than the non-incentivized villages, particularly in … to be more efficient spending of block grants, and led to an increase in labor from health providers, who are partially …

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Volatility, employment and the patterns of FDI in emerging markets

Aizenman, Joshua - 2002

even for risk neutral multinationals, as their profit function is non-linear due to price and productivity effects. For … of productivity shocks in an emerging market producing the intermediate inputs reduces the multinationals' expected … in each country to productivity shocks, channeling the average employment from the more to the less volatile location …

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International Evidence of Strengthening Taxes and Spending For Sustainable Development

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Hien Nguyen; Park, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We trace the linkages between the episodes of fiscal expansion and consolidation in 72 advanced and emerging and developing economies. The findings suggest that fiscal expansions are positively associated with economic growth, which in turn is positively linked with better sustainable...

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Country Risk and Incentives Schemes

Aizenman, Joshua - 1986

The purpose of this paper is to address the role of endogenous default penalties that are contingent upon the intensity of default on the part of the borrowing nation, and to evaluate the effects of contingency plans that make the interest rate dependent upon variables that are correlated with...

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