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The Rise of the Fourth Estate : How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered

Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Goldin, Claudia; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2004

A free and informative press is widely agreed to be crucial to the democratic process today. But throughout much of the nineteenth century U.S. newspapers were often public relations tools funded by politicians, and newspaper independence was a rarity. The newspaper industry underwent...

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How Does School Accountability Affect Teachers? Evidence from New York City

Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - 2018

data from New York City, which assigns accountability grades to schools based on student achievement, I perform a … find that a lower accountability grade decreases teacher turnover and increases joining teachers' quality. A likely channel … is that accountability pressures induce increases in principal effort at lower-graded schools, especially among high …

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Elite Identity and Political Accountability : A Tale of Ten Islands

Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2016

more accountable than others. The relationship between elite identity and political accountability is complex and non … the British Crown. Consistent with the theory, we find evidence linking this to rising accountability of the islands …

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E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs : Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India

Banerjee, Abhijit; Imbert, Clément - 2016

transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare …

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Financing Direct Democracy : Revisiting the Research on Campaign Spending and Citizen Initiatives

de Figueiredo, John M. - 2010

The conventional view in the direct democracy literature is that spending against a measure is more effective than spending in favor of a measure, but the empirical results underlying this conclusion have been questioned by recent research. We argue that the conventional finding is driven by the...

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Public Safety through Private Action : An economic assessment of BIDs, locks, and citizen cooperation

Cook, Philip J. - 2010

Given the central role of private individuals and firms in determining the effectiveness of the criminal justice system, and the quality and availability of criminal opportunities, private actions arguably deserve a central role in the analysis of crime and crime prevention policy. But the...

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Assessing Urban Crime And Its Control : An Overview

Cook, Philip J. - 2008

Urban crime rates in the United States fell markedly during the 1990s and remain at historically low levels. The statistical evidence presented here indicates that that decline, like the crime surge that preceded it, has been largely uncorrelated with changes in socioeconomic conditions across...

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Why Does Democracy Need Education?

Glaeser, Edward - 2006

Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participation, including voting and organizing....

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Are There Civic Returns to Education?

Dee, Thomas S. - 2003

The hypothesized effects of educational attainment on adult civic engagement and attitudes provide some of the most important justifications for government intervention in the market for education. In this study, I present evidence on whether these externalities exist. I assess and implement two...

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Does Education Improve Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K

Milligan, Kevin - 2003

Many economists and educators of diverse political beliefs favor public support for education on the premise that a more educated electorate enhances the quality of democracy. While some earlier studies document an association between schooling and citizenship, little attempt has been made to...

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