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Social audits and MGNREGA delivery : lessons from Andhra Pradesh
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - 2014
In spite of widespread acclaims of social audits as low-cost and powerful participatory tools that can bolster awareness and improve public service delivery, a key policy question is what such audits have achieved so far. Using a unique panel data set assembled from official social audit...
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Measuring performance: ranking state success over two decades in India
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka Roy; … - 2021
This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs launched by the Indian...
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Public sector pay and corruption : measuring bribery from micro data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor);  … - 2006
This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings …-reported compensation in the public sector. Using the conditions of labor market equilibrium, we develop an aggregate measure of bribery and … find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460 mln and 580 mln U.S. dollars (0 …
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Whither corruption? : a quantitative survey of the literature on corruption and growth
Campos, Nauro; Dimova, Ralitza; Saleh, Ahmed - 2010
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses metaanalysis techniques to systematically evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising 460 estimates of the effect of corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors...
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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
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Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin America
Hauk, Esther; Oviedo, Mónica; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2017
This paper studies the relationship between people's beliefs about the quality of their institutions, as measured by corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our empirical study is guided by a theoretical model which introduces taxes into Foellmi and...
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Bribery, hold-up and bureaucratic structure
Bennett, John; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2018
increase or decrease domestic welfare. Because of the threat of hold-up, bribery may result in greater domestic welfare than …
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Lobbying, corruption and other banes
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 2008
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one in developing countries. This paper challenges these...
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The Italian job : match rigging, career concerns and media concentration in Serie A
Boeri, Tito (contributor); Severgnini, Battista (contributor) - 2008
This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the determinants of match rigging and use this information in...
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Downloading wisdom from online crowds
Saiz, Albert (contributor); Simonsohn, Uri (contributor) - 2008
The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise that the occurrence of a phenomenon increases the likelihood that people write about it, that the...
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