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The Governance of Not-for-Profit Firms
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
maximizing shareholder value. One of the most striking factors about non-profit firms is that they have no comparable governance … essay discusses the implications of these weak governance institutions on non-profit behavior. A primary implication is that … is the need of the organizations to compete in outside markets. After presenting a model of non-profit behavior, I look …
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Data Analysis, Communication, and Control
Welsch, Roy E. - 2021
The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
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Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet - 2022
We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of an ambitious attempt to improve management quality in Indian schools (implemented in 1,774 randomly-selected schools). The intervention featured several global “best practices” including comprehensive assessments, detailed...
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How Does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program
Brown, Jason - 2011
Governments often contract with private firms to provide public services such as health care and education. To decrease firms' incentives to selectively enroll low-cost individuals, governments frequently "risk-adjust" payments to firms based on enrollees' characteristics. We model how risk...
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Urban Public Finance
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012
America's local governments spend about one-eighth of our national income, one-fourth of total government spending, and employ over 14 million people. This paper surveys the large and growing economics literature on local governments and their finances. A primary difference between local and...
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Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin
Caldeira, Emilie - 2012
We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel data from local governments' accounts and from surveys on 18,000 Beninese households performed in 2006 and 2007, our study suggests that decentralization has a positive overall...
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Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa : a Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso
McMillan, Margaret - 2012
This paper uses historical census data from Burkina Faso to characterize local demographic pressures associated with internal migration into river valleys after Onchocerciasis eradication, combined with a new survey of village elders to document change over time and differences across villages...
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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics
Harris, Matthew - 2019
Unlike in the production of most goods, changes in capacity for labor-intensive services only affect outcomes of interest insofar as service providers change the way they allocate their time in response to those capacity changes. In this paper, we examine how public sector service providers...
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Public Debt Through the Ages
Eichengreen, Barry - 2019
We consider public debt from a long-term historical perspective, showing how the purposes for which governments borrow have evolved over time. Periods when debt-to-GDP ratios rose explosively as a result of wars, depressions and financial crises also have a long history. Many of these episodes...
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