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Henderson, J. Vernon; Kuncoro, Ari - 2021

reduction in regulation in better funded localities. The findings are directly relevant to Indonesia where corruption is high …Bribes by firms in Indonesia arise principally from regulations --licenses and levies --imposed by local government … latter is capitalized into lower salaries needed by localities to compensate public officials. Localities in Indonesia are …

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International Migration and Human Rights

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice, it encompasses the right to move internally within a country, the right to move abroad, and the right to return from abroad. It does not include the right of an individual...

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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study

Edwards, Sebastian - 2014

We investigate whether the inclusion of social rights in political constitutions affects social performance. More specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational outcomes." We rely on data for 61 countries that...

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Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis

Alsan, Marcella; Braghieri, Luca; Eichmeyer, Sarah; … - 2021

Major crises—from terrorist attacks to outbreaks of disease—bring the trade-off between individual civil liberties and national security or well-being into sharp relief. In this paper, we study to what extent individual preferences for protecting rights and civil liberties are elastic to...

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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights

Qian, Nancy - 2010

This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...

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White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy

Elliott, Kimberly Ann; Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

With the continuing expansion of global economic integration, labor standards in developing countries have become a hot button issue. One result has been a proliferation of efforts to use the market to put pressure directly on multinational corporations to improve wages and working conditions in...

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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis

Haddad, Mona - 2010

, Indonesia, and the United States. When we aggregate across all products, most of the countries analyzed experienced a decline in …

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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

Burgess, Robin - 2012

eight years of institutional change in post-Soeharto Indonesia. Increases in the numbers of political jurisdictions are …

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Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information : Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2012

We use unique data from 600 Indonesian communities on what individuals know about the poverty status of others to study how network structure influences information aggregation. We develop a model of semi-Bayesian learning on networks, which we structurally estimate using within-village data....

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Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2013

Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and non-experimental data on a …

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