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corruption. We compare the influences of latent enforcement (police, judicial, and prosecutorial employment) versus actual …Adding a new dimension to determinants of corruption, this paper examines the effectiveness of enforcement in reducing … enforcement to combat corruption by increasing enforcement employment is ineffective, rather comprehensive improvements in …
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outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …
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deontological moral reminder ("corruption is immoral") leads to a significant reduction in accepting bribes. A consequentialist …
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identical public good, but only one of them offers opportunities for corruption. Our theoretical predictions relate occupation … the private sector. On average, corruption increases the size of the public sector, although the public output received by …
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Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that individual authors persistently claim to have found solid evidence in one or the other direction raises two questions. Firstly, what are the causes for these different results? Do...
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Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this hypothesis using a large-scale randomized control experiment in which more than one thousand...
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dimensions, is broadly consistent with the greasing effects of corruption. While the study uses data from a single nation that is …
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data for the war on drugs in Colombia, and against consumption in the U.S., to calibrate the unobservable parameters of the … ; Plan Colombia …
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This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of balanced growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements while there is continuous arrival of new potential producers. Firms can also...
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Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of the former, little is known about the role of self-image concerns. We exogenously vary self-image...
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