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 …

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 …

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

ministerial leadership (the principal) introduced a new monitoring technology aimed at improving the performance of agricultural …

decrease child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, widespread concern that poor governance and in particular … limited accountability among health workers seriously undermines the effectiveness of such programs. We performed innovative …

Is greater trading liquidity good or bad for corporate governance? We address this question both theoretically and … information concerns her own plans for taking an active role in governance. We show that an increase in the liquidity of the firm … governance. Empirical tests using three distinct sources of exogenous variation in liquidity confirm the negative relation …