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Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie; Foucault, Martial; Rota-Graziosi, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel … suggests that decentralization has a positive overall effect on access to basic services. However, this effect appears to be … services. Decentralization in Benin contributes positively to the reduction of poverty by improving the average access to …

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Heart of Darkness: Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box

David, Paul A.; Hall, Bronwyn H - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

This paper is a first step toward closing the analytical gap in the extensive literature on the results of interactions between public and private R&D expenditures, and their joint effects on the economy. Econometric studies in this area report a plethora of sometimes confusing and frequently...

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Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico; Moreira, Diana B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...

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The Gradients of Power: Evidence from the Chinese Housing Market

Fang, Hanming; Zhou, Li-An; Gu, Quanlin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Using a large, unique dataset on the Chinese housing market, we propose to measure corruption using the price differences paid by bureaucrat buyers and non-bureaucrat buyers in the housing market. We find that the housing price paid by bureaucrat buyers is on average 1.05 percentage points lower...

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How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy

list, john; Sturm, Daniel M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

In this paper we explore to what extent secondary policy issues are influenced by electoral incentives. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on both a frontline policy issue, such as the level of public spending, and a secondary policy issue, such as environmental...

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Does Electoral Accountability Affect Economic Policy Choices? Evidence from Gubernatorial Term Limits

Case, Anne; Besley, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

This paper uses data from U.S. states to investigate whether electoral accountability affects economic policy choices. We set up a model in which the possibility of being re-elected may curtail opportunistic behavior by incumbent governors. We find that facing a binding term limit affects...

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The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya

Burgess, Robin; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Jedwab, Remi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State

Levine, David; Modica, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...

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Third-Party Opportunism and the Nature of Public Contracts

spiller, pablo t.; Moszoro, Marian W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The lack of flexibility in public procurement design and implementation reflects public agents' political risk adaptation to limit hazards from opportunistic third parties - political opponents, competitors, interest groups - while externalizing the associated adaptation costs to the public at...

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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States

Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that it might forestall political capture. We then provide direct...

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