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Racial discrimination in local public services : a field experiment in the US

Giulietti, Corrado; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015

Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...

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The cost of decentralization : linguistic polarization and the provision of education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016

In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...

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Incentives and anonymity principle : crowding out toward users

Crifo, Patricia (contributor); … - 2004

In our model, an agent produces an outcome by a costly effort and then distributes it among heterogeneous users. The agents̕ payoff is the weighted sum of the users ̕shares and the coefficient reflecting their heterogeneity. When the agent neglects users ̕heterogeneity the game leads to an...

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This mine is mine! : how minerals fuel conflicts in Africa

Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2015 - First version: July 2014, This version: June 16, 2015

-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …

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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare

Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...

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Competition in public service provision : the role of not-for-profit providers

Besley, Timothy; Malcomson, James M. - 2017

With public services such as health and education, it is not straightforward for consumers to assess the quality of provision. Many such services are provided by monopoly not-for-profit providers and there is concern that for-profit providers may increase profit at the expense of quality. This...

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Does federalism affect e-government in Germany?

Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Steinhoff, Peter - 2023

International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired "top spot" in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...

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Young and old competing for public welfare services

Borge, Lars-Erik (contributor); Rattsø, Jørn (contributor) - 2008

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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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Public provision of private goods, tagging and optimal income taxation with heterogeneity in needs

Bastani, Spencer; Blomquist, Nils Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2010

Previous literature has shown that public provision of private goods can be a welfare-enhancing device in second-best settings where governments pursue redistributive goals. However, three issues have so far been neglected. First, the case for supplementing an optimal nonlinear income tax with...

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