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Making Policies Matter : Voter Responses to Campaign Promises

Cruz, Cesi - 2018

Can campaign promises change voter behavior, even where clientelism and vote buying are pervasive? We elicit …

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The Mortality Cost of Political Connections

Fisman, Raymond - 2015

We study the relationship between the political connections of Chinese firms and workplace fatalities. In our preferred specification we find that the worker death rate for connected companies is two to three times that of unconnected firms (depending on the sample employed), a pattern that...

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Does Combating Corruption Reduce Clientelism?

Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Gertler, Paul J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Does combating corruption reduce clientelism? We examine the impact of a prominent anti-corruption program on … clientelism using a novel representative survey of rural Brazilians. Randomized audits reduce politicians' provision of campaign …

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On the Ethnic Origins of African Development Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2014

We report on recent findings of a fruitful research agenda that explores the importance of ethnic-specific traits in shaping African development. First, using recent surveys from Sub-Saharan African countries, we document that individuals identify with their ethnic group as often as with the...

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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya

Allen, Franklin - 2012

With extensive country- and firm-level data sets we first document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We also find that population density appears to be considerably more important...

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Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa

Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A. - 2012

In this paper we evaluate the impact of colonialism on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the world context, colonialism had very heterogeneous effects, operating through many mechanisms, sometimes encouraging development sometimes retarding it. In the African case, however, this...

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Choosing a Dictator : Bureaucracy and Welfare in Less Developed Polities

Rauch, James E. - 1995

corruption of their subordinates as a byproduct of their efforts to implement their preferences using tax revenue. Within this …

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Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Plants

Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2003

Proponents of trade liberalization argue that it will force firms to produce closer to the production possibility frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level. However intuitive the argument, empirical evidence is...

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Occupy Government : Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Finances

Barbosa, Klenio - 2019

We study the causes and consequences of patronage in Brazilian cities since the country's re-democratization. We test … patronage for public finances. Our data consist of the universe of public sector employees merged with their party affiliations …, and a dynamic regression discontinuity design is applied to disentangle patronage from the growing political participation …

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Charity and Favoritism in the Field : Are Female Economists Nicer (to Each Other)?

Abrevaya, Jason - 2010

Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects the former's recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender differences among referees in charitableness toward authors; nor...

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