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Law enforcement officers are allowed to exercise a significant amount of street-level discretion in a variety of ways. In this paper, we focus on a particular prominent kind of discretionary behavior by traffic officers when issuing speeding tickets, speed discounting. Officers partially forgive...
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Informal school fees - for uniforms, books, and other supplies - are substantial in developing countries, often several times formal tuition. We evaluate a scholarship program that alleviated informal fees for girls in a subset of Gambian secondary schools. The program is unique because it...
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We discuss how a schooling system's structure may imply that private school enrolment leads to worse subsequent performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students differ not only in terms of their families' ability to pay...
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This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic …
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ethnic minority suburbanization, and on settling in rural municipalities. -- suburbanisation ; ethnicity ; Census data ; East …
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The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a … ; local public infrastructure ; failing state schools ; simultaneity bias ; instrumental variable …
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This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub … about the processing of small infrastructure projects requests by sub-municipal governments. The objective of this …, and monitoring small infrastructure project allocations. Second, is to explicitly alter the probability of detecting …
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We design an infrastructure experiment in Mexico to evaluate the impact of street pavement on housing values and … have important implications for urban infrastructure financing. -- randomized controlled trial ; street pavement ; home …
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of a composite index of networking among key components of societal infrastructure and how it affects the process of … urbanization. This study has a number of objectives. First we identify key determinants of public infrastructure components in … index is used to rank provinces in China by development of level of the networking among public infrastructure components …
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What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build …, half of which provided infrastructure in previously unpopulated areas (de novo neighborhoods), while the other half …
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