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Corruption in Developing Countries
Olken, Benjamin; Pande, Rohini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This, in turn, has led to a … new generation of well-identified, microeconomic studies. We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in … light of these recent advances, focusing on three questions: how much corruption is there, what are the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278235
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079876
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Thin-Slice Forecasts of Gubernatorial Elections
Shapiro, Jesse; Benjamin, Daniel J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We showed 10-second, silent video clips of unfamiliar gubernatorial debates to a group of experimental participants and asked them to predict the election outcomes. The participants' predictions explain more than 20 percent of the variation in the actual two-party vote share across the 58...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830433
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Mediocracy
Mattozzi, Andrea; Merlo, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In this paper, we study the initial recruitment of individuals in the political sector. We propose an equilibrium model of political recruitment by a party who faces competition for political talent from the lobbying sector. We show that a political party may deliberately choose to recruit only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778100
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Political Careers or Career Politicians?
Mattozzi, Andrea; Merlo, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Two main career paths are prevalent among politicians in modern democracies: there are career politicians (i.e., politicians who work in the political sector until retirement), and political careers (i.e., there are politicians who leave politics before retirement and work in the private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088614
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830392
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Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets
Miguel, Edward Andrew; Fisman, Raymond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
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 … generates a revealed preference measure of government officials' corruption based on real-world behavior taking place in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720647
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How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being
Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
In this paper we employ World Values Survey measures of life satisfaction as though they were direct measures of utility, and use them to evaluate alternative features and forms of government in large international samples. We find that life satisfaction is more closely linked to several World...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030907
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Empirical Linkages between Good Government and National Well-being
Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang; Grover, Shawn; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper first reviews existing studies of the links between good governance and subjective well-being. It then brings together the largest available sets of national-level measures of the quality of governance to assess the extent to which they contribute to explaining the levels and changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071742
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828971