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Race, Ethnicity, and Measurement Error
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas; Wu, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Large literatures have analyzed racial and ethnic disparities in economic outcomes and access to the safety net. For such analyses that rely on survey data, it is crucial that survey accuracy does not vary by race and ethnicity. Otherwise, the observed disparities may be confounded by...
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Electoral College and Election Fraud
Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
One frequently overlooked aspect of the U.S.-style electoral college system is that it discourages election fraud. In a presidential election based on the popular vote, competing political parties are motivated to manipulate votes in areas where they hold the most significant influence, such as...
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Corruption as a Shared Dilemma : Survey Evidence from Legislators and Citizens in Three Countries
Fisman, Raymond; Ferroni, Matteo F.; Golden, Miriam A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-offs between, for example, probity and efficiency: both perceive corruption as undesirable but prevalent. These novel descriptive … politics. Finally, results reconfirm partisan bias by voters in evaluations of corruption. Overall, results suggest that …
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Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats : Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC
Bergeron, Augustin; Bessone, Pedro; Kabeya Kabeya, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The assignment of workers to tasks and teams is a key margin of firm productivity and a potential source of state effectiveness. This paper investigates whether a low-capacity state can increase its tax revenue by optimally assigning its tax collectors. We study the two-stage random assignment...
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From Lapdogs to Watchdogs : Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance
Vannutelli, Silvia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A classic problem in public finance is the over-expenditure of local governments in expectation of a bailout from higher-level administrations. While monitoring could mitigate agency problems, it can itself be rendered ineffective if auditors are corruptible. I evaluate whether limiting...
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Missing Discussions : Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition
Gitmez, A. Arda; Robinson, James A.; Shadmehr, Mehdi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Institutional constraints to counter potential abuses in the use of political power have been viewed as essential to well functioning political institutions and good public policy outcomes in the Western World since the time of ancient Greece. A sophisticated intellectual tradition emerged to...
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How Large is the Bias is Self-Reported Disability?
Benitez-Silva, Hugo - 2000
A pervasive concern with the use of self-reported health and disability measures in behavioral models is that they are biased and endogenous. A commonly suggested explanation is that survey respondents exaggerate the severity of health problems and incidence of disabilities in order to...
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A Review of Estimates of the Schooling/Earnings Relationship, with Tests for Publication Bias
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2000
') bias in the estimates and, after due account is taken of this bias, we find that differences due to estimation method are …
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Cognitive Biases : Mistakes or Missing Stakes?
Enke, Benjamin; Genîzî, Ûrî; Hall, Brian J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
reliance on intuitions. In none of the tasks are very high stakes sufficient to de-bias participants, or come even close to …
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Noise in Expectations : Evidence from Analyst Forecasts
De Silva, Tim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper quantifies the amount of noise and bias in analysts' forecast of corporate earnings at various horizons. We … next decompose the relative accuracy of these forecasts into three components: (i) noise, (ii) bias and (iii) analysts … both noise and bias are increase linearly. We then show most existing models lack a mechanism to account for these facts …
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