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The Governance of Not-For-Profit Firms
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2002
maximizing shareholder value. One of the most striking factors about non-profit firms is that they have no comparable governance … essay discusses the implications of these weak governance institutions on non-profit behavior. A primary implication is that … is the need of the organizations to compete in outside markets. After presenting a model of non-profit behavior, I look …
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The governance of not-for-profit organizations
Glaeser, Edward L. (ed.) - 2003
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Data Analysis, Communication, and Control
Welsch, Roy E. - 1974
The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …
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Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2020
We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of an ambitious attempt to improve management quality in Indian schools (implemented in 1,774 randomly-selected schools). The intervention featured several global "best practices" including comprehensive assessments, detailed school...
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
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A Note on the Level of Customer Support by State Governments : A Mystery-Shopping Approach
Dube, Oeindrila; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Pope, Devin G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many government services are provided at the state level such as unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and SNAP. Given the lack of competition, a natural worry is that customer support provided by states for these services is less than adequate. While there are many different measures of how a state...
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Municipal Employment, Municipal Unions, and Demand for Municipal Services
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 1985
Municipal unions may often use their own votes and those of sympathetic fellow citizens to promote increases in demand for municipal services. If successful, this strategy can increase member employment levels without sacrificing compensation. Municipal employee unionization significantly...
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Public Debt Through the Ages
Eichengreen, Barry - 2019
We consider public debt from a long-term historical perspective, showing how the purposes for which governments borrow have evolved over time. Periods when debt-to-GDP ratios rose explosively as a result of wars, depressions and financial crises also have a long history. Many of these episodes...
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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics
Harris, Matthew C. - 2019
Unlike in the production of most goods, changes in capacity for labor-intensive services only affect outcomes of interest insofar as service providers change the way they allocate their time in response to those capacity changes. In this paper, we examine how public sector service providers...
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Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq
Berman, Eli - 2008
We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a government seeking to minimize violence by mixing service provision and coercion, and civilians deciding whether to...
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