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The governance of not-for-profit organizations
Glaeser, Edward L. (ed.) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480759
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452842
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457998
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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H. (contributor); Morck, Randall (contributor) - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009689290
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478333
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480087
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461963
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457343
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Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa : Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective
Acemoglu, Daron - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458573