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Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities
Levin, Jonathan; Tadelis, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Local governments can provide services with their own employees or by contracting with private or public sector providers. We develop a model of this "make-or-buy" choice that highlights the trade-off between productive efficiency and the costs of contract administration. We construct a dataset...
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Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets
Miguel, Edward Andrew; Fisman, Raymond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
generates a revealed preference measure of government officials' corruption based on real-world behavior taking place in the …Corruption is believed to be a major factor impeding economic development, but the importance of legal enforcement … versus cultural norms in controlling corruption is poorly understood. To disentangle these two factors, we exploit a natural …
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Disclosure by Politicians
Djankov, Simeon; La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
. Disclosure is more extensive in richer and more democratic countries. Disclosure is correlated with lower perceived corruption …
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Does the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Save Lives?
Miron, Jeffrey A; Tetelbaum, Elina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) is widely believed to save lives by reducing traffic fatalities among underage drivers. Further, the Federal Uniform Drinking Age Act, which pressured all states to adopt an MLDA of 21, is regarded as having contributed enormously to this life saving effect....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829765
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What Do Prosecutors Maximize? An Analysis of Drug Offenders and Concurrent Jurisdiction
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Piehl, Anne Morrison; Kessler, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998
This paper presents a model of prosecutors' decision-making processes in which prosecutors (both federal and state) internalize some of the benefits of reducing crime, but also care about developing their own human capital. Since U.S. attorneys make their decision first, they have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575731
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD
Alston, Lee J.; Andersson, Krister - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Understanding and minimizing the transaction costs of policy implementation are critical for reducing tropical forest losses. As the international community prepares to launch REDD+, a global initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, policymakers need to pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836719
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Improving Police Performance in Rajasthan, India: Experimental Evidence on Incentives, Managerial Autonomy and Training
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The role of good management practices in organizations has recently been emphasized. Do the same principles also apply in government organizations, even the most bureaucratic and hierarchical of them? And can skilled, motivated managers identify how to improve these practices, or is there a role...
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The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis
Levin, Jonathan; Einav, Liran - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Many believe that "big data" will transform business, government and other aspects of the economy. In this article we discuss how new data may impact economic policy and economic research. Large-scale administrative datasets and proprietary private sector data can greatly improve the way we...
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Broken or Fixed Effects?
Gibbons, Charles E.; Serrato, Juan Carlos Suárez; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper provides empirical evidence of an established theoretical result: in the presence of heterogeneous treatment effects, OLS is generally not a consistent estimator of the sample-weighted average treatment effect (SWE). We propose two alternative estimators that do recover the SWE in the...
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Causal Analysis after Haavelmo
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Haavelmo's seminal 1943 paper is the first rigorous treatment of causality. In it, he distinguished the definition of causal parameters from their identification. He showed that causal parameters are defined using hypothetical models that assign variation to some of the inputs determining...
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