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U.S Electric Utility Adaptation to Natural Disasters Shocks and Green Power Mandates
Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Access to electricity is a crucial determinant of quality of life and productivity. The United States has a highly reliable electricity grid but it faces new resilience challenges posed by more intense natural disasters and rising state level green power requirements. Using a U.S electric...
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Informal Fiscal Systems in Developing Countries
Aman-Rana, Shan; Minaudier, Clement; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
arise when monitoring corruption is difficult relative to monitoring the provision of public services, and politically …-important groups of citizens do not bear the full cost of corruption. The existence of such systems can distort the effective incidence … of the tax burden, reduce the incentives of government to fight corruption, and legitimize bribe-taking …
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The Real State : Inside the Congo's Traffic Police Agency
Sanchez de la Sierra, Raul; Titeca, Kristof; Xie, Haoyang; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the organization of corruption in a state agency. The dual mandate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo … profits and distortions beyond those that would be made possible via corruption by individual state officials …
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On the Governance of Corrupt Exchange : How Citizens and Officials Build Social Ties to Reduce Corruption's Transaction Costs
Lameke, Aimable Amani; Nkuku, Albert Malukisa; Sanchez … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
cost of corruption, in the context of public transport. We first document that police stops can lead to long bribe …
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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets
Casella, Alessandra - 2012
. In a large electorate, the numerical advantage of the majority becomes irrelevant: democracy is undone by the market …
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Wealth at Birth and its Effect on Child Academic Achievement and Behavioral Problems
Faundez, Luis F.; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In this article, we examine the association between family wealth and academic achievement and socioemotional behaviors of children ages 5 to 12. We examine whether wealth prior to birth and at ages 4 or 5 affects academic test scores and behavioral problems during two periods of childhood, ages...
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The Economic Approach to Political Borders
Spolaore, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical studies of political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public policies as...
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Choose Your Moments : Peer Review and Scientific Risk Taking
Carson, Richard T.; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Shrader, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Science funding agencies such as the NIH, NSF, and their counterparts around the world are often criticized for being too conservative, funding incremental innovations over more radical but riskier projects. One explanation for their conservatism is the way the agencies use peer review of...
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Algorithms
Ludwig, Jens; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Rambachan, Ashesh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We calculate the social return on algorithmic interventions (specifically their Marginal Value of Public Funds) across multiple domains of interest to economists--regulation, criminal justice, medicine, and education. Though these algorithms are different, the results are similar and striking....
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How Do Voters Respond to Welfare Vis-a-Vis Public Good Programs? Theory and Evidence of Political Clientelism
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...
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