Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 43
Cover Image
Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance
Finan, Frederico; Ferraz, Claudio - eSocialSciences - 2009
examines whether higher wages attract better quality politicians and improve political performance. The analysis exploits … discontinuities in wages across municipalities induced by a constitutional amendment defining caps on the salary of local legislatures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487791
Cover Image
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
Burgess, Robin; Hansen, Matthew; Olken, Benjamin; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to combating tropical deforestation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548006
Cover Image
Bentham from the Crypt Once More: Politicians in Pursuit of Happiness
Kenny, Charles - eSocialSciences - 2011
There is a burgeoning academic literature on happiness polls that has used a range of different measures and approaches across countries rich and poor alike to answer the question, “what makes people say they are happy?†The excitement surrounding this work is well justified. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323733
Cover Image
European Views on Asia and Europe-Asian Relations
Ramiah, Venil - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper examines in its first part, the views of leading European academics, politicians, lobbyists and opinion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500555
Cover Image
Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
Iyer, Lakshmi; Mani, Anandi - eSocialSciences - 2008
Politicians face high-powered electoral pressures while bureaucrats face longer-term, low powered incentives. Given … constitutional constraints, what incentives do politicians employ to control bureaucrats and how do bureaucrats respond to such … incentives? These issues are addressed using a sample model where politicians use posts of varying importance to motivate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487544
Cover Image
Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
Finan, Frederico; Schechter, Laura - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, how social preferences overcome the commitment problems implicit in vote-buying is examined. Data used for the study is a survey information on vote-buying experienced in a 2006 municipal election in Paraguay, with information on behavior in experiments carried out in 2002....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487857
Cover Image
Political Selection and the Quality of Evidence: Evidence form South India
Pande, Rohini; Besley, Timothy; Rao, Vijayendra - eSocialSciences - 2005
This paper uses household data from India to examine the economic and social status of village politicians, and how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528309
Cover Image
The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - eSocialSciences - 2013
database is constructed on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133117
Cover Image
Food Security: Cities As Part of the Solution and Not the Problem
Teng, Paul S - eSocialSciences - 2012
accomplish this requires new thinking and new policies by policy makers and politicians, and new technologies from R and D by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568005
Cover Image
Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China
Miquel, Gerard Padro-i-; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/366.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945274