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Glaeser, Edward L. (ed.) - 2003

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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 …

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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 highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Capitalizing China

Fan, Joseph P. H. (contributor); Morck, Randall (contributor) - 2013

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Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa : Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Chaves, Isaías N.; Robinson, James Alan; … - 2014

A fundamental problem for economic development is that most poor countries have 'weak state' which are incapable or unwilling to provide basic public goods such as law enforcement, order, education and infrastructure. In Africa this is often attributed to the persistence of 'indirect rule' from...

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Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan

Berman, Eli - 2014

International development agencies invest heavily in institution building in fragile states, including expensive interventions to support democratic elections. Yet little evidence exists on whether elections enhance the domestic legitimacy of governments. Using the random assignment of an...

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Advance Refundings of Municipal Bonds

Ang, Andrew - 2013

interest payments after the call date. We find that municipalities in states with poor governance generally destroy the most …

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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption : Evidence from US States

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that it might forestall political capture. We then provide direct...

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The Political Economy of Government Revenues in Post-Conflict Resource-Rich Africa : Liberia and Sierra Leone

Davies, Victor A.B. - 2012

exploiting natural resources in the aftermath of a civil conflict before public management institutions are developed, as … and revenue institutional capacity, as well as transparent corporate and government institutions for resource management …

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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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