incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported … Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the …

We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased accountability pressure in U.S. public schools by threatening to …

The rise of high-stakes accountability programs was one of the most noticeable changes in the U.S. education system … exposure to accountability modestly but detectably increased educational attainment – roughly .02 years per year of exposure …. Effects on income were positive, but again modest and insignificant in most specifications. Lastly, if accountability had …

This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery …, development and accountability with program outcomes. Our findings have important implications for both the design and …