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Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies

Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - 2015

audits on bed net distribution programs in three countries (Ghana, Kenya and Uganda) to investigate local agency problems and …

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Are Resettled Oustees from the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project Better off Today than their Former Neighbors who were not Ousted?

Aiyar, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria - 2018

The Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat is arguably the most controversial dam ever built in India, with over a 100 … to the dam from influential NGOs, there is no systematic empirical study of its effects on the long-term wellbeing of the … ousted families. Our study investigates: Are resettled oustees from the Sardar Sarovar Dam project better off in 2017 …

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Dams

Duflo, Esther - 2005

dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located downstream from … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …

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Government and Health Outcomes

Grossman, Michael - 1981

In this paper, I summarize the results of empirical studies in the areas of schooling and health, public programs and infant mortality, and government regulation of teenage smoking. My review is selective and is based on my own research. It is neutral with respect to the question of whether the...

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Sharing a Government

Ventura, Jaume - 2019

This paper develops a simple theoretical framework to study a set of regions, each with its own regional government, who share a union or central government. These governments must decide whether to implement or discard a large number of projects that produce local benefits for the region that...

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Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity : Experimental Evidence From Paraguay

Dal Bó, Ernesto - 2018

Standard models of hierarchy assume that agents and middle managers are better informed than principals about how to implement a particular task. We estimate the value of the informational advantage held by supervisors (middle managers) when ministerial leadership (the principal) introduced a...

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Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

Cohen, Lauren - 2010

This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that...

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Provincial and Local Governments in China : Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior

Gordon, Roger H. - 2011

What are the incentives faced by local officials in China? Without democratic institutions, there is no mechanism for local residents to exercise "voice". Given the hukou registration system, local residents have little opportunity to threaten "exit" if they are unhappy with local taxes and...

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Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa : Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

had such a polity, such as Ghana and Uganda, tended to abolish indirect rule since it excessively empowered traditional …

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Liquidity and Governance

Back, Kerry - 2013

Is greater trading liquidity good or bad for corporate governance? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. We solve a model consisting of an optimal IPO followed by a dynamic Kyle market in which the large investor's private information concerns her own plans for taking an...

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