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Favoritism in the Public Provision of Goods in Developing Countries
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004
Goods are often allocated publically by means of queuing processes in developing countries.In such situations, which group of citizens should a corrupt government official favor? In addition,what should be the basis for this favoritism? To the best of our knowledge, these salient questionshave...
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Selecting less Corruptible Bureaucrats
Hu, Audrey; Zhou, Liang - 2007
A government officials' propensity to corruption, or corruptibility, can be affected by his intertemporal preference …
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Does Campaign Finance imply Political Favors?
Claessens, Stijn; Feijen, Erik; Laeven, Luc - 2006
This paper provides empirical evidence that campaign contributions arestrongly associated with market expectations of future firm-specific political favors,including preferential access to external financing. Using a novel dataset, we find thatfirms in Brazil providing contributions in the 1998...
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The Influence of Wages on Public Officials' Corruptibility: A Laboratory Investigation
van Veldhuizen, Roel - 2012
Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. This paper investigates this …
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New Developments in the Measurement of Welfare and Well-being
van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Plug, Erik J.S. - 2012
This paper is dating from 1995, when it has been presented at the Ragnar Frisch Centennial Memorial Conference in Oslo. It has never been published before.In this paper for the first time the Cantril ladder question data have been employed in the way which later has become known as happiness...
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Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020
Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427137
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Out of Africa: What drives the Pressure to emigrate?
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - 2003
' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about … potential migrants are only present in Ghana and Egypt. The differences in intentions by age and sex are also quite noteworthy … Ghana and Egypt. The network effects of potential migrants turn out to be less important than one might expect from actual …
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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005
? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad …
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Reputation Shocks and Strategic Responses in Electoral Campaigns
Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021
Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both incumbent and challenger increase their campaign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606015
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
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