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Campaign Connections
Bazzi, Samuel; Labanca, Claudio - 2023
hires are relatively more qualified. Our results suggest a potential upside to patronage as campaign connections create new …
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Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes? Evidence from Connections to the German Federal Parliament
Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2024
measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power …
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Political parties and network formation
Miettinen, Topi; Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anti-corruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians … distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining access to politicians and, thereby, to become potential candidates for …
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Outside income and moral hazard: the elusive quest for good politicians
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - 2008
empirical evidence shows that bad but dedicated politicians come along with good but not fully committed politicians. There is …
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Electoral rules and politicians' behavior: a micro test
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - 2008
politicians' rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House …
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Out of Communal Land: Clientelism through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Contracts
Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2021
salary. To formulate how limited-term private ownership of bengkok land promotes clientelism, we model a timely delegation of … 2018 across 130 villages in Java, Indonesia, we find that the chances of a bengkok plot being rented out increase by 6 …
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Child labor and trade liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2009
We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies …
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The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective
Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - 2011
context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … Korea and Indonesia. Descriptive evidence is presented suggesting that pension eligible workers are far more likely to cease …
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision: Evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012
Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence …
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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
Bagchi, Sutirtha; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We derive a global measure of wealth inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and...
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