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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 handouts, decrease citizens' demands for private goods,...

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Guns, Privacy, and Crime

Acquisti, Alessandro; Tucker, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Open government holds promise of both a more efficient but more accountable and transparent government. It is not clear, however, how transparent information about citizens and their interaction with government, however, affects the welfare of those citizens, and if so in what direction. We...

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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

In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale experiment to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase accountability and reduce corruption in the implementation of a workfare program. The reforms introduced electronic fund-flow, cut...

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Government and Health Outcomes

Grossman, Michael - 1981

In this paper, I summarize the results of empirical studies in the areas of schooling and health, public programs and infant mortality, and government regulation of teenage smoking. My review is selective and is based on my own research. It is neutral with respect to the question of whether the...

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Sharing a Government

Ventura, Jaume - 2019

This paper develops a simple theoretical framework to study a set of regions, each with its own regional government, who share a union or central government. These governments must decide whether to implement or discard a large number of projects that produce local benefits for the region that...

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Provincial and Local Governments in China : Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior

Gordon, Roger H. - 2011

What are the incentives faced by local officials in China? Without democratic institutions, there is no mechanism for local residents to exercise "voice". Given the hukou registration system, local residents have little opportunity to threaten "exit" if they are unhappy with local taxes and...

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Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

Cohen, Lauren - 2010

This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that...

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Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity : Experimental Evidence From Paraguay

Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2018

Standard models of hierarchy assume that agents and middle managers are better informed than principals about how to implement a particular task. We estimate the value of the informational advantage held by supervisors (middle managers) when ministerial leadership (the principal) introduced a...

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Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies

Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - 2015

decrease child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, widespread concern that poor governance and in particular …

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Liquidity and Governance

Back, Kerry - 2013

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 …

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