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Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over 10 Years : Experimental Evidence

Blattman, Christopher; Chaskel, Sebastian; Jamison, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In most societies, a small number of people commit the most serious violence. Short-term studies have shown that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can reduce such antisocial behaviors. These behavior changes may be temporary, however, especially from therapy on its own. This is unsettled,...

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Informal Fiscal Systems in Developing Countries

Aman-Rana, Shan; Minaudier, Clement; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

do so, at least partially, through extracted bribes. We propose a model of bureaucratic agency to explore when … 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 …

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How Does Expropriation Risk Affect Innovation?

Benavente H., José Miguel; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

risk, such as corruption, negatively impacts innovation by reducing R&D expenditure, human capital in R&D, number of …

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Self-Employment Within the Firm

Bassi, Vittorio; Lee, Jay; Peter, Alessandra; Porzio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We document limited labor specialization within the firm for establishments of all sizes and argue that this is likely due to the prevalence of product customization. We then develop a...

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Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian state

Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better targeted and less prone to clientelistic control by state and local governments. Arguably this has helped to increase the vote share of the BJP vis-a-vis regional parties. We...

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Value Chain Microfinance

Casaburi, Lorenzo; Willis, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the provision of financial services to small firms, consumers, and workers in developing countries as part of value chain relationships: value chain microfinance (VCMF). We first explore how VCMF can both overcome barriers to financial access - including asymmetric information,...

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Rethinking the Informal Economy and the Hugo Effect

Pappadà, Francesco; Rogoff, Kenneth S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper offers a new approach to measuring the size of the informal economy based on VAT data for the European Union. Although data intensive, our EVADE measure is simpler and more transparent than existing measures. EVADE also shows more variation across countries of Europe than earlier...

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War Does not Foster Cooperation when Neoclassical Mechanisms are Absent! Evidence from a Natural Experiment among Turkish Conscripts

Kıbrıs, Arzu; Cesur, Resul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Exploiting a natural experiment and an innovative survey design, we study the social and political legacies of armed conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and the mediating pathways for the average male randomly picked from the...

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Randomized Regulation : The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets

Bedoya, Guadalupe; Das, Jishnu; Dolinger, Amy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established minimum quality standards for patient safety, an issue that has become increasingly salient following the Ebola and COVID-19 epidemics. In our experiment, all 1348 health facilities...

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Subjecting the ‘Average Joe' to War Theatre Triggers Intimate Partner Violence

Cesur, Resul; Kıbrıs, Arzu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This research is the first to identify the impact of armed conflict exposure for the average male randomly drawn from the population on subsequent intimate partner violence (IPV). We exploit a population-level natural experiment in service location assignment of draftees under Turkey's universal...

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