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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")

Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor); … - 2006

economics ; incomplete contracts ; construction ; agency theory ; industry studies ; outsourcing ; procurement …

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Goldschlag, Nathan; Bianchini, Stefano; Lane, Julia; … - 2016

Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...

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Do gun buybacks save lives? : evidence from panel data

Leigh, Andrew; Neill, Christine - 2010

In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using differences across states in the number of firearms withdrawn, we test whether the reduction in firearms availability affected firearm homicide and suicide rates. We find that the...

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Building political collusion : evidence from procurement auctions

Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2010

We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement …. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they … of favoritism in repeated procurement auctions, where time reveals collusive types, thus increasing the value of illegal …

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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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The impact of scoring weights on price and quality outcomes : an application to the procurement of welfare-to-work contracts

Koning, Pierre; Meerendonk, Arthur van de - 2012

This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and disabled workers. WTW-organizations did not only bid on prices, but also received points for three...

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Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of social public procurement policy : the case of the Swiss apprenticeship training system

Leiser, Mirjam Strupler; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2016

In this paper we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that … train apprentices a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this social procurement policy on a firm …. However, the effect is limited in size, as only small firms and firms operating in sectors where public procurement represents …

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On the organizational structure of multinational firms : which sourcing mode for which input?

Südekum, Jens; Nowak, Verena Nina; Schwarz, Christian - 2012

Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm, which suggests that important components should be...

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Child welfare and old-age security in female headed households in Tanzania

Seebens, Holger (contributor) - 2009

households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric …

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Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked? : results from a survey experiment in Tanzania

Bardasi, Elena; Beegle, Kathleen; Dillon, Andrew; … - 2010

survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent … design ; Tanzania ; field experiment …

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