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Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of elite capture on the allocation of targeted government welfare programs in Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and non-experimental data on a variety of existing government transfer programs....
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The Value of Democracy : Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
Burgess, Robin - 2013
Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...
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Vulnerability and Clientelism
Bobonis, Gustavo J. - 2017
This study argues that economic vulnerability causes citizens to participate in clientelism, a phenomenon with various pernicious consequences. We employ a randomized control trial that reduced household vulnerability through a development intervention: constructing residential water cisterns in...
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Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness
Best, Michael - 2017
during 2011–2016, we show that over 40 percent of the variation in quality-adjusted prices paid—our measure of performance …—dramatically improves performance, but only when implemented by ineffective bureaucrats …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957383
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Occupy Government : Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Finances
Barbosa, Klenio - 2019
We study the causes and consequences of patronage in Brazilian cities since the country's re-democratization. We test … patronage for public finances. Our data consist of the universe of public sector employees merged with their party affiliations …, and a dynamic regression discontinuity design is applied to disentangle patronage from the growing political participation …
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The Mortality Cost of Political Connections
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2015
We study the relationship between the political connections of Chinese firms and workplace fatalities. In our preferred specification we find that the worker death rate for connected companies is two to three times that of unconnected firms (depending on the sample employed), a pattern that...
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The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Callen, Michael - 2016
Public sector absenteeism undermines service delivery in many developing countries. We report results from an at-scale randomized control evaluation in Punjab, Pakistan of a reform designed to address this problem. The reform affects healthcare for 100 million citizens across 297 political...
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The Weak State Trap
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Molina, Carlos A.; Robinson, James - 2022
Development outcomes come in ‘clusters’ that seem difficult to exit. Using original data from Colombia, we present evidence of the interconnection between two critical political components: state weakness and clientelism. State weakness creates the right environment for clientelism to...
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Making Policies Matter : Voter Responses to Campaign Promises
Cruz, Cesi - 2018
Can campaign promises change voter behavior, even where clientelism and vote buying are pervasive? We elicit multidimensional campaign promises from political candidates in consecutive mayoral elections in the Philippines. Voters who are randomly informed about these promises rationally update...
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Cronyism and Capital Controls : Evidence from Malaysia
Johnson, Simon; Mitton, Todd - 2022
The initial impact of the Asian financial crisis in Malaysia reduced the expected value of government subsidies to politically favored firms. Of the estimated $60 billion loss in market value for politically connected firms from July 1997 to August 1998, roughly 9% can be attributed to the fall...
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