to forgo the potentially valuable private information of their managers. We study the introduction of job testing across … 15 firms employing low-skilled service sector workers. When faced with similar applicant pools, we find that managers who … appear to hire against test recommendations end up with worse average hires. This suggests that managers often overrule test …

) and civil society (representing non-elite citizens), where both players can invest to increase their power. The model …

they may further expand the size of bureaucracy so as to gain additional votes. The model shows that an equilibrium with an …

We argue that China, with its long history, a relatively stable political system, and multiple regime changes, provides …

second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our … enforcement authorities; in China, female prefectural leaders are as much as 75 percent less likely to be arrested for corruption …

- can significantly affect the efficacy of industrial policy. We investigate this idea in the context of China's largest pro …

Corruption is a widespread phenomenon in many developing and transitional economies. China is a country in profile both … in the prevalence of corruption, and in its attempts to root out corruption. The recent anti-corruption campaign in China …. It has had lasting impact on the functioning of the Chinese bureaucracy, and on the behavior of firms and consumers. It …