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Reciprocity networks and the participation problem

Dufwenberg, Martin; Patel, Amrish - 2014

Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The interaction of reciprocity with cost-sharing is critical....

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Political alignment and bureaucratic pay

Fiva, Jon H.; Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; … - 2019

We study the private gains to bureaucrats from their political alignment with elected politicians. Whereas existing studies generally rely on proxies for politician-bureaucrat political alignment, a rare feature of our data allows measuring it directly since 27% of bureaucrats ran for political...

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The negative consequences of overambitious curricula in developing countries

Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - 2012

Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow...

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Benefits and challenges of integrating South and Southeast Asia

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012

In recent decades, Southeast Asian economies have prospered through an outward-oriented strategy, through intra-regional integration under the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) initiative and through participating in the East Asian production networks. In the 1970-80ś, South...

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Beyond the veil of ignorance : the influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy

Schneider, Friedrich; Teobaldelli, Désirée - 2012

In this paper we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on the size and development of the shadow economies. The framework developed predicts a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of the shadow economy. Countries where direct democratic...

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Beyond Bentham : measuring procedural utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

. We find that participation rights provide more procedural utility in terms of a feeling of self-determination and … influence than actual participation. …

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Political socialization in flux? : linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement

Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2012

Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic...

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Democratic participation and the size of regions : an empirical study using data on German counties

Seitz, Helmut (contributor) - 2008

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Biased policy and political behavior

Ben Basaṭ, Avi; Dahan, Momi - 2016

public policy may foster or dampen political participation depending on social group affiliation. The policy change we use to … boxes in national elections and they tend to vote more for Arab parties. In contrast, the political participation of Jewish …

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Political participation and the welfare state

Borck, Rainald - 2018

A large literature has claimed that higher political participation increases welfare spending. In this paper, I review … this literature. I study the theoretical link between participation and redistributive spending. Then, I survey the … empirical literature on the link between education, income and political participation, as well as that between political …

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