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The political resource curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269401
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543258
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Corruption and Mental Health: Evidence from Vietnam
Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2020
While there is substantial corruption in developing countries, the costs imposed by corruption on individuals and households are little understood. This study examines the relationship between exposure to local corruption and mental health, as measured by depressive symptoms. We use two large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497837
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Does it pay to be a cadre? Estimating the returns to being a local official in rural China
Zhang, Jian; Giles, John T.; Rozelle, Scott - 2012
-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … who is a cadre. Given the increasing returns to non-agricultural employment since China's economic reforms began, it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283955
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Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
During last sixty years, Turkish population moved from one province to another at the rate of about 7-8 percent per five-year interval. As a consequence of this massive internal migration, population residing in a province other than the one they were born in increased from 12 percent in 1950 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096767
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Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - 2014
During last sixty years, Turkish population moved from one province to another at the rate of about 7-8 percent per five-year interval. As a consequence of this massive internal migration, population residing in a province other than the one they were born in increased from 12 percent in 1950 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352317
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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2006
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/10010267880
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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
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/10005566702
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Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design in close elections to identify the effect of political alignment on federal transfers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021642
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Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683656