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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
Cunha, Flavio - 2010
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...
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The Great Migration of Black Americans from the Us South : A Guide and Interpretation
Collins, William J. - 2022
The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social, and political change. This article offers a concise...
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Provincial and Local Governments in China : Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior
Gordon, Roger H. - 2011
What are the incentives faced by local officials in China? Without democratic institutions, there is no mechanism for … successes and the problems arising from local government activity in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131309
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Sharing a Government
Ventura, Jaume - 2019
This paper develops a simple theoretical framework to study a set of regions, each with its own regional government, who share a union or central government. These governments must decide whether to implement or discard a large number of projects that produce local benefits for the region that...
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Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity : Experimental Evidence from Paraguay
Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2018
Standard models of hierarchy assume that agents and middle managers are better informed than principals about how to implement a particular task. We estimate the value of the informational advantage held by supervisors – middle managers – when ministerial leadership – the principal –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913385
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Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies
Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - 2015
decrease child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, widespread concern that poor governance and in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019515
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Liquidity and Governance
Back, Kerry - 2013
Is greater trading liquidity good or bad for corporate governance? We address this question both theoretically and … information concerns her own plans for taking an active role in governance. We show that an increase in the liquidity of the firm … governance. Empirical tests using three distinct sources of exogenous variation in liquidity confirm the negative relation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072575
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Advance Refundings of Municipal Bonds
Ang, Andrew - 2013
interest payments after the call date. We find that municipalities in states with poor governance generally destroy the most …
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Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
Cohen, Lauren - 2010
This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146270
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Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa : Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
A fundamental problem for economic development is that most poor countries have 'weak state' which are incapable or unwilling to provide basic public goods such as law enforcement, order, education and infrastructure. In Africa this is often attributed to the persistence of 'indirect rule' from...
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