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We propose a political economy mechanism that explains the presence of fiscal regimes punctuated by crisis periods. Our model focuses on the interaction between successive deficit-biased governments subject to i.i.d. fiscal shocks. We show that the economy transitions between a fiscally...
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central assemblies in order to ensure effective communication and coordination between self-governing towns and the rest of …
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Persistence of sharecropping tenancy and increases in farm productivity following regulations protecting tenant rights have been observed in many developing countries. This paper examines if these can be explained by alternative models of sharecropping with two sided efforts/investments, namely,...
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We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's traffic police agency is to manage traffic and to enforce the traffic code. We first document that, in the capital's branch, Kinshasa, traffic violation fines account for only...
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the organization, impacting organizational outcomes. We consider a delegation reform that changed formal rules within the … delegation of formal authority affects its actual allocation, the consequences for applicant firms, and the circumstances that … delegation post-reform, and officers facing a higher backlog of applications are more likely to delegate. These results are …
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This article provides evidence from the Congo that social relationships with state officials can decrease one social cost of corruption, in the context of public transport. We first document that police stops can lead to long bribe negotiations. In response, some drivers and officers have built...
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Conventional wisdom proposes deep historical roots for authoritarianism in Africa: either colonial "decentralized despotism" or enduring structural features. We present a new theoretical perspective. Africans sought autonomous local communities, which constrained precolonial rulers. Colonizers...
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, city departments adopt a nudge treatment in follow-on communication in 27% of cases. As potential determinants of adoption … experimental design, such as whether the RCT was implemented as part of pre-existing communication. We find (i) a limited impact of …, the largest predictor of adoption is (iii) whether the communication was pre-existing, as opposed to a new communication …
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We use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on variation in congressional representation to analyze the effects of federal aid to state and local governments across all four major pieces of COVID-19 response legislation. Through September 2021, we estimate that the federal government...
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Nonprofits supply many tax-financed services like healthcare and education. Yet nonprofits are absent from the canonical property rights theory of ownership. Extending the government "make or buy" decision to nonprofits and ex post frictions based on contracts as reference points suggests that...
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