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firms. We show theoretically that feedback incentives decrease the equilibrium bribe amount, but make firms with more …
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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 …
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We conducted a field experiment in Burkina Faso to investigate the impact of sharing obligations within kin networks on entrepreneurial effort. The overall treatment effect we find is insignificant and goes in the opposite direction than previous literature suggests. Ex-post explorative analysis...
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Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior. The...
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This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …
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This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show …
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We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large-scale lab-in-the-field public goods experiment with...
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Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We … state to establish and implement policies reflecting good governance; for example, a government that is accountable and …
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We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
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We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior beyond their direct economic consequences. A principal-agent experiment is studied in which prior to contract choice principals are informed about past actions of other agents and thus have more information...
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