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Occupy Government : Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Finances
Barbosa, Klenio - 2019
We study the causes and consequences of patronage in Brazilian cities since the country's re-democratization. We test … patronage for public finances. Our data consist of the universe of public sector employees merged with their party affiliations …, and a dynamic regression discontinuity design is applied to disentangle patronage from the growing political participation …
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Charity and Favoritism in the Field : Are Female Economists Nicer (to Each Other)?
Abrevaya, Jason - 2010
Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects the former's recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, we find no evidence of gender differences among referees in charitableness toward authors; nor...
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Making Policies Matter : Voter Responses to Campaign Promises
Cruz, Cesi - 2018
Can campaign promises change voter behavior, even where clientelism and vote buying are pervasive? We elicit multidimensional campaign promises from political candidates in consecutive mayoral elections in the Philippines. Voters who are randomly informed about these promises rationally update...
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Vulnerability and Clientelism
Bobonis, Gustavo J. - 2017
Political clientelism is often deemed to undermine democratic accountability and representation. This study argues that economic vulnerability causes citizens to participate in clientelism. We test this hypothesis with a randomized control trial that reduced household vulnerability through a...
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Kinship Systems, Cooperation and the Evolution of Culture
Enke, Benjamin - 2017
Cultural psychologists and anthropologists argue that societies have developed heterogeneous systems of social organization to cope with social dilemmas, and that an entire bundle of psychological and biological characteristics has coevolved to enforce cooperation within these different regimes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455182
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Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness, and Consequences for Policy
Best, Michael Carlos - 2017
How much of the variation in state effectiveness is due to the individuals and organizations responsible for implementing policy? We investigate this question and its implications for policy design in the context of public procurement, using a text-based product classification method to measure...
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The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Callen, Michael - 2016
Public sector absenteeism undermines service delivery in many developing countries. We report results from an at-scale randomized control evaluation in Punjab, Pakistan of a reform designed to address this problem. The reform affects healthcare for 100 million citizens across 297 political...
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The Mortality Cost of Political Connections
Fisman, Raymond - 2015
We study the relationship between the political connections of Chinese firms and workplace fatalities. In our preferred specification we find that the worker death rate for connected companies is two to three times that of unconnected firms (depending on the sample employed), a pattern that...
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Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State : Confederate Pensions in the American South
Eli, Shari - 2015
Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They continued to expand these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using legislative...
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The Value of Democracy : Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
Burgess, Robin - 2013
Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...
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