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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2012
voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub …-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting … mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have limited …
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Information Technologies and Provision of National Identification Cards by the Bolivian Police : Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Field Experiments
Chong, Alberto - 2014
This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic process: the renewal of a national identification card by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057916
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Motivating Bureaucrats Through Social Recognition : External Validity — A Tale of Two States
Gauri, Varun - 2019
Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth, but little real-world evidence exists on how to improve it, especially in resource-constrained settings. We conducted a field experiment of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in health facilities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870244
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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John - 2007
We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778446
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Bribery, Hold-Up and Bureaucratic Structure
Bennett, John - 2018
We analyze the provision of infrastructure by a foreign investor when the domestic bureaucracy is corrupt, but puts some weight on domestic welfare. The investor may pay a bribe in return for a higher provisional contract price. After the investment has been sunk, the bureaucracy may hold up the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915722
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The Anti-Corruption Campaign and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Working in Bureaucracy : Evidence from China
Chen, Shuai; Ge, Erqi - 2022
There is a clear and persistent inequality of bureaucratic employment between individuals with a bureaucrat parent and those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for counter-corruption affect inequality and potential...
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Roma and Bureaucrats : A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination
Mikula, Štepán; Montag, Josef - 2023
This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined...
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Police and Crime : Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring
Buonanno, Paolo - 2012
This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which the Parliament, the President, and the Court of Auditors...
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Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020
Can high-quality local governance alleviate the environmental impact of large-scale refugee migration? The recent surge in refugee flows has brought additional challenges to local governments in Europe, the Middle East and certain regions of Africa and Asia. In this paper, we focus on the case...
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Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2020
We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of police reported accidents in a generalized...
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