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Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Della Vigna, Stefano; Kim, Woojin; Linos, Elizabeth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Governments increasingly use RCTs to test innovations before scale up. Yet, we know little about whether and how they incorporate the results of the experiments into policy-making. We follow up with 67 U.S. city departments which collectively ran 73 RCTs in collaboration with a national Nudge...
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Plata y Plomo : How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence
Pulejo, Massimo; Querubín Borrero, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the … significantly more likely to prevent corruption in public procurement, a key area of illicit interactions between the state and … limit corruption, but also foster the use of violence as an alternative tool to influence policymaking …
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Sovereign Default and Tax-smoothing in the Shadow of Corruption and Institutional Weakness
Azzimonti, Marina; Mitra, Nirvana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, particularly tax-smoothing practices. Focusing on democratic representation and control of corruption, our dynamic political …
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Corruption as a Shared Dilemma : Survey Evidence from Legislators and Citizens in Three Countries
Fisman, Raymond; Ferroni, Matteo F.; Golden, Miriam A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We conduct parallel surveys of legislators and citizens in three countries to study their tolerance for corruption. In …-offs between, for example, probity and efficiency: both perceive corruption as undesirable but prevalent. These novel descriptive … data further reveal that legislators generally have accurate beliefs about public opinion on corruption and understand its …
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Identification in a Binary Choice Panel Data Model with a Predetermined Covariate
Bonhomme, Stéphane; Dano, Kevin; Graham, Bryan S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study identification in a binary choice panel data model with a single predetermined binary covariate (i.e., a covariate sequentially exogenous conditional on lagged outcomes and covariates). The choice model is indexed by a scalar parameter θ, whereas the distribution of unit-specific...
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Regularization from Economic Constraints : A New Estimator for Marginal Emissions
Holland, Stephen P.; Mansur, Erin; Verdier, Valentin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Environmental policy is increasingly concerned with measuring emissions resulting from local changes to electricity consumption. These marginal emissions are challenging to measure because electricity grids encompass multiple locations and the information available to identify the effect of each...
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Causal Models for Longitudinal and Panel Data : A Survey
Arkhangelsky, Dmitry; Imbens, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This survey discusses the recent causal panel data literature. This recent literature has focused on credibly estimating causal effects of binary interventions in settings with longitudinal data, with an emphasis on practical advice for empirical researchers. It pays particular attention to...
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African Political Institutions and the Impact of Colonialism
Bolt, Jutta; Gardner, Leigh; Kohler, Jennifer; Paine, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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A Theory of Fiscal Responsibility and Irresponsibility
Halac, Marina; Yared, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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Was Pandemic Fiscal Relief Effective Fiscal Stimulus? Evidence from Aid to State and Local Governments
Clemens, Jeffrey; Hoxie, Philip G.; Veuger, Stan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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