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Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …

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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015

Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...

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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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"Tiger-hunting" and life satisfaction : a matter of trust

Zhang, Youxing; Howley, Peter; Hetschko, Clemens - 2022

political support. Combining data on the public disclosure of anti-corruption efforts and individual well-being in China, we …

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The impact of government size on corruption : a meta-regression analysis

Bonanno, Graziella; Errico, Lucia; Fiorino, Nadia; … - 2024

We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …

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The long-term effect of Western customs institution on firm innovation in China

Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024

reduce local corruption and stimulate firms' investment in R&D and training to this day. We identify a causal effect by …

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Malthus meets Luther : the economics behind the German Reformation

Curuk, Malik; Smulders, Sjak - 2016

The Reformation provided a powerful source of legitimacy for secularization of governance and enabled the regional authorities to change the institutional structure to eliminate the inefficiencies under the prevailing (Catholic) regime. We investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change...

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Earthquakes, religion, and transition to self-government in Italian cities

Belloc, Marianna; Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto - 2015

For a panel of 122 cities observed over 300 years in medieval northern-central Italy, we document that the occurrence of an earthquake retarded institutional transition from the feudal regime to the commune (free city state) in cities where the political and the religious leaders were one and...

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Racial group affinity and religious giving : evidence from congregation-level panel data

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. Joseph - 2014

Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...

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Religiosity and terrorism : evidence from Ramadan fasting

Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2018

This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan fasting. For identification, we exploit two facts: First, daily fasting from dawn to sunset during Ramadan is considered mandatory for most Muslims. Second, the Islamic calendar is...

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