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Access to land and tenancy practices on Tanah Bengkok: evidence from Java, Indonesia

Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2020

Tanah bengkok (bengkok land) in Java, Indonesia boasts a unique institution where elected village leaders receive … land distribution in Java, unavailability of systematic data has so far constrained in-depth empirical research on bengkok … land. In 2018, we conducted a survey covering 130 villages and more than 1,800 households in Java. We found substantial …

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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision : evidence from Indonesia

Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012

Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...

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Gender interactions within hierarchies : evidence from the political arena

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2009

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...

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Do better paid politicians perform better? : disentangling incentives from selection

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2009

The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of those who are appointed. First, if skilled individuals shy away from politics because of higher opportunities in the private sector, an increase in politicians' pay may change...

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Institutional development and colonial heritage within Brazil

Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Assunção, … - 2009

This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...

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Electoral accountability and corruption in local governments : evidence from audit reports

Ferraz, Claudio (contributor); … - 2007

Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economic development. Yet despite its importance, our understanding of what determines corruption is limited. This paper uses a novel...

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Motivating politicians : the impacts of monetary incentives on quality and performance

Ferraz, Claudio (contributor); … - 2008

Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently economic performance. But if the quality of leadership matters, then understanding what motivates individuals to become politicians and perform competently in office becomes a central...

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Building political collusion : evidence from procurement auctions

Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2010

We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they administered between 2000 and 2005. Identification is achieved...

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Stimulating local public employment : do general grants work?

Lundqvist, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2010

The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...

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Corrupting learning : evidence from missing federal education funds in Brazil

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - 2012

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...

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