-scale randomized control evaluation in Punjab, Pakistan of a reform designed to address this problem. The reform affects healthcare for … doctor attendance. The scale of the experiment permits an investigation into the mechanisms underlying this result. We find …

due to chronic diseases which are amenable to primary and secondary prevention. In a field experiment in Oakland …

exploits a natural experiment in the province of Ontario, Canada to identify empirically the impact of pay-for-performance (P4P …) incentives on the provision of targeted primary care services, and whether physicians' responses differ by age, practice size and … nearly all the services provided by practicing primary care physicians in Ontario. With an individual-level data set of …

assisted by AI predictions could outperform both human-alone or AI-alone. We conduct an experiment with professional …

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 …

evidence of the interconnection between two critical political components: state weakness and clientelism. State weakness … creates the right environment for clientelism to flourish. Clientelism sets in place a structure of incentives for politicians … and citizens that is detrimental to building state capacity. We show that vote buying, as a measure of clientelism, and …