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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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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...

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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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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...

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Choosing Size of Government Under Ambiguity: Infrastructure Spending and Income Taxation

Manski, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Attempting to shed light on the optimal size of government, economists have analyzed planning problems that specify a set of feasible taxation-spending policies and a social welfare function. The analysis characterizes the optimal policy choice of a planner who knows the welfare achieved by each...

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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper's motivating evidence we also uncover...

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Are Public Sector Jobs Recession-Proof? Were They Ever?

Rosen, Harvey; Kopelman, Jason L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We use data from the Displaced Worker Survey supplements of the Current Population Survey from 1984 to 2012 to investigate the differences in job loss rates between workers in the public and private sectors. Our focus is on the extent to which recessions affect the differential between job loss...

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What Was New About the New Deal?

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Wallis, John Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

During the presidential election of 1932 Franklin Roosevelt promised a New Deal for the American people. Our goal is to describe the changes wrought by the New Deal. To what extent did the New Deal expand existing programs? What new programs were created at all levels of government? How did the...

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Networks, Commitment, and Competence: Caste in Indian Local Politics

Rosenzweig, Mark; Munshi, Kaivan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper widens the scope of the emerging literature on economic networks by assessing the role of caste networks in Indian local politics. We test the hypothesis that these networks can discipline their members to overcome political commitment problems, enabling communities to select their...

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