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The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...
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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. …
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career … three levels of transparency under which career concerns are predicted to affect behavior differently, and test the model …'s key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out - transparency negatively …
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of moral ideal, we show that the impact of transparency is conditional on the length of the transfer chain and on the … intermediary will embezzle less. Senders react positively to a reduction of the length of the chain but negatively to transparency. …
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We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...
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Leaks are pervasive in politics. Hence, many committees that nominally operate under secrecy de facto operate under the threat that information might be passed on to outsiders. We study theoretically and experimentally how this possibility affects the behavior of committee members and the...
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incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …
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exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly … compliance improved following the implementation of transparency. Compliance increased in a group of 28 critical compliance areas … additional controls, definitions of the transparency period, and estimation approaches. …
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Because accountability may improve the comparability that is compromised by lenient grading, we compare exit exam outcomes in the same schools before and after a policy change that increased teacher accountability by anchoring grading scales. In particular, using a large administrative dataset...
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