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Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two databases of cognitive skills: estimates of...

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Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan

Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael; Faikina, Anastasiia - 2023

Building state capacity is uniquely challenging in fragile states. We report results from a randomized evaluation of a major Afghan government initiative to increase capacity by modernizing its payroll. The reform, which required teachers to biometrically register and receive salary payments via...

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Strengthening Fragile States : Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan

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Can Moral Reminders Curb Corruption? Evidence from an Online Classroom Experiment

Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022

Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...

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Can Moral Reminders Curb Corruption? Evidence from an Online Classroom Experiment

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Gotcha!: a profile of smuggling in international trade

Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - 2008

interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the …

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Gainers and Losers from Market Integration

Gersbach, Hans - 2019

We compare integration of economic, matching and networking markets. There can be losers from integration in all three cases, but their relative numbers depend on the type of market. There can be many losers from integration of pure exchange economies. There are relatively few losers from...

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Political Risk and Real Exchange Rate : What Can We Learn from Recent Developments in Panel Data Econometrics for Emerging and Developing Countries?

Bahmani‐Oskooee, Mohsen - 2019

This paper focuses on the analysis of the long-run response of the Real Exchange Rate (RER) to political risks and tests whether non-economic variables have an impact on RER in 31 emerging and developing countries. We use annual data from the International Country Risk Guide database over the...

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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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Intelligence, Personality and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - 2016

Intelligence and personality significantly affect social outcomes of individuals. We study how and why these traits … levels of certain traits, such as higher or lower levels of intelligence, Conscientiousness and Agreeableness. We find that … intelligence has a large and positive long-run effect on cooperative behavior when there is a conflict between short-run gains and …

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