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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John - 2007

's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the quot;corruptibilityquot; of bureaucrats in each case …

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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 … investment has been sunk, the bureaucracy may hold up the investor, using the threat of expropriation to demand a lower final …

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica - 2014

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values

Ticchi, Davide - 2013

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …

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The Determinants of Asset Stripping : Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies

Campos, Nauro F. - 2005

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda

Bensch, Gunther - 2011

Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...

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Education Policies and Practices : What Have We Learnt and the Road Ahead for Bihar

Ranjan, Priya - 2012

This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates of educational outcomes. It also surveys the...

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The Effect of Village-Based Schools : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan

Burde, Dana - 2012

We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21...

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Temporary Work Visas as Us-Haiti Development Cooperation : A Preliminary Impact Evaluation

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...

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Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs : Experimental Evidence from the Gambia

Blimpo, Moussa - 2019

This paper studies two experiments of early childhood development programs in The Gambia: one increasing access to services, and another improving service quality. In the first experiment, new community-based early childhood development (ECD) centers were introduced to randomly chosen villages...

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