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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico

Kumler, Todd J.; Verhoogen, Eric; Frias, Judith A. - 2013

Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...

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Economic Integration and State Capacity: Evidence from the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

Bruszt, Laszlo; Campos, Nauro F - 2018

We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our analysis that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels. Each of these...

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Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success over Two Decades in India

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka Roy; … - 2021

This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery …

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"Good Politicians": Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance

Gulzar, Saad; Khan, Muhammad Yasir - 2023

How can we motivate good politicians – those that will carry out policy that is responsive to citizens' preferences – to enter politics? In a field experiment in Pakistan, we vary how political office is portrayed to ordinary citizens. We find that emphasizing prosocial motives for holding...

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Strengthening state capabilities: The role of financial incentives in the call to public service

Dal Bó, Ernesto; Finan, Frederico S.; Rossi, Martín A. - 2012

We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...

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Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Dal Bó, Ernesto; Finan, Frederico S.; Rossi, Martín A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico

Kumler, Todd J.; Verhoogen, Eric; Frias, Judith A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2015

Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...

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Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks

Batista, Catia; Seither, Julia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2018

What is the role of international migrants and, specifically, migrant networks in shaping political attitudes and behavior in migrant sending countries? Our theoretical framework proposes that migration might change individual social identities and thus stimulate intrinsic motivation for...

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Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004

, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: (i) Education and governance raise the level of TFP … directly; and (ii) education and governance also raise TFP through their interaction with foreign R&D in R …) that taking into account the interaction effects between trade, education and governance by reforming the policies …

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