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Disclosure by Politicians
Djankov, Simeon; La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We collect data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by politicians in 175 countries. Although two thirds of the countries have some disclosure laws, less than a third make disclosures available to the public. Disclosure is more extensive in richer and more democratic...
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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....
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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
-scale randomized trials conducted in collaboration with the state police of Rajasthan, India sought to increase police efficiency and … improve interactions with the public. In a sample of 162 police stations serving almost 8 million people, the first experiment … tested four interventions recommended by police reform panels: limitations of arbitrary transfers, rotation of duty …
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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...
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Advancing the Empirical Research on Lobbying
Figueiredo, John M. de; Richter, Brian Kelleher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This essay identifies the empirical facts about lobbying which are generally agreed upon in the literature. It then discusses challenges to empirical research in lobbying and provides examples of empirical methods that can be employed to overcome these challenges--with an emphasis on statistical...
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A Theory of Minimalist Democracy
Francois, Patrick; Trebbi, Francesco; Bidner, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
A majority of the world democracies are far from the benchmark of representative democracy. This paper presents a model of political transitions based on a minimalist conception of the democratic state, i.e. a form of government solely characterized by competitive elections. We show that the...
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The Dictator's Inner Circle
Francois, Patrick; Trebbi, Francesco; Rainer, Ilia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We posit the problem of an autocrat who has to allocate access to the executive positions in his inner circle and define the career profile of his own insiders. Statically, granting access to an executive post to a more experienced subordinate increases political returns to the post, but is more...
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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate
casella, alessandra; Turban, Sébastien; Wawro, Gregory J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...
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