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Ornaghi, Carmine - 2018

We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

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Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based Almp Programs?

Gerdes, Christer - 2015

One of the services provided at the Swedish Public Employment Services is job coaching. Since 2012, that service has been organized according to a voucher-based choice system. In 2013, a performance indicator of job coaching providers was made available at an online website. This study examines...

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The Gender Education Gap in China : The Power of Water

Maimaiti, Yasheng - 2009

We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a … girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her … household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …

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The Politicians' Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...

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Rising Stars

Battistin, Erich - 2017

We use the UK's 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a classification problem and, using information in official documents, derive conditions to infer the...

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Access to Land and Tenancy Practices on Tanah Bengkok : Evidence from Java, Indonesia

Kurosaki, Takashi - 2020

Tanah bengkok (bengkok land) in Java, Indonesia boasts a unique institution where elected village leaders receive usufruct rights to a parcel of land owned by the village, in lieu of salary. Despite its relevance to the political economy of land distribution in Java, unavailability of systematic...

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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation

Grund, Christian - 2015

The intention of "doing good for society" is regarded to be a crucial motivator for employees in the public sector in order for them to perform well. Recent research in the public sector literature calls for a deeper understanding of how this specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped....

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A Happy Choice : Wellbeing as the Goal of Government

Frijters, Paul - 2019

In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...

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Does Increased Teacher Accountability Decrease Leniency in Grading?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2019

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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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Tonin, Mirco - 2014

The public sector employs a large share of the labor force to execute important functions (e.g. regulation and public good provision) in an environment beset by severe agency problems. Attracting workers who are motivated to serve the public interest is important to mitigate these problems. We...

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