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The Simple Economics of Extortion : Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

Olken, Benjamin A. - 2007

This paper tests whether the behavior of corrupt officials is consistent with standard industrial organization theory. We designed a study in which surveyors accompanied truck drivers on 304 trips along their regular routes in two Indonesian provinces, during which we directly observed over...

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Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality

Olken, Benjamin A. - 2006

This paper examines the accuracy of beliefs about corruption, using data from Indonesian villages. Specifically, I compare villagers' stated beliefs about the likelihood of corruption in a road-building project in their village with a more objective measure of 'missing expenditures' in the...

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Monitoring Corruption : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Olken, Benjamin A. - 2005

expenditures in over 600 village road projects in Indonesia by having engineers independently estimate the prices and quantities of …

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Corruption in Indonesia

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2004

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 … reduction in regulation in better funded localities. The findings are directly relevant to Indonesia where corruption is high …

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Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity : Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia

Alesina, Alberto - 2014

This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic …

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The Effects of Mortality on Fertility : Population Dynamics after a Natural Disaster

Nobles, Jenna - 2014

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed large shares of the residents of some Indonesian...

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Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters

Cameron, Lisa - 2013

(using real money) with randomly selected individuals in rural Indonesia. We find that individuals who recently suffered a …

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Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery : Spending Your Donations

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2011

agencies. We analyze three waves of survey data on fishermen and fishing villages in Aceh, Indonesia from 2005-2009, following …

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Evolution of Risk Aversion over Five Years after a Major Natural Disaster

Ingwersen, Nicholas; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Thomas, Duncan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk is examined, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in combination with rich population-representative longitudinal survey data...

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The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs : Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries

Gaduh, Arya; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

experiment with over 28,000 welfare program administrators and over 19,000 beneficiaries in Indonesia to elicit the 'marginal …

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