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Sweetening the Carrot : Motivating Public Physicians for Better Performance
Garcia-Prado, Ariadna - 2006
It is widely observed that many physicians working in public health facilities do not put in the required effort and time in their jobs. At the same time, many public physicians remain highly motivated, working long hours for little financial reward, in providing quality health services. This...
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Effect of Stress on Later-Life Health : Evidence from the Vietnam War Draft
Cawley, John - 2017
A substantial literature has examined the impact of stress during the early stages of life on later-life health. This paper contributes to that literature by examining the later-life health impact of stress during adolescence and early adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military...
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Obesity and Food away from Home : What Drives the Socioeconomic Gradient in Excess Body Weight?
Strupat, Christoph - 2019
Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to … restaurants located in the food environment of the households is significantly associated with higher rates of obesity and … overweight. Up to 15 percent of the socioeconomic gradient in obesity is attributable to restaurant food quality, with sodium …
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The Use of Financial Incentives to Prevent Undesirable Behaviors
de Walque, Damien - 2018
behaviors, in domains as varied as HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, smoking, obesity, or early marriage prevention. This paper presents …
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Prioritizing Infrastructure Investment : A Framework for Government Decision Making
Marcelo, Darwin - 2017
Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing gaps have been projected for the coming decades. Social cost-benefit analysis provides sound project appraisal and, when systematically applied, a basis for prioritization. In...
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Deals and Delays : Firm-Level Evidence on Corruption and Policy Implementation Times
Freund, Caroline L. - 2017
This paper examines whether demands for bribes for particular government services are associated with expedited or delayed policy implementation. The "grease the wheels" hypothesis, which contends that bribes act as speed money, implies three testable predictions. First, on average, bribe...
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Can Political Empowerment Help Economic Empowerment? Women Leaders and Female Labor Force Participation in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
This study examines whether political empowerment of women affects their economic participation. In the context of mandated political representation reform for women in India, the study finds that the length of exposure to women politicians affects overall female labor force participation. These...
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Sharing the Benefits of Innovation-Digitization : A Summary of Market Processes and Policy Suggestions
Islam, Roumeen - 2018
Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies...
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Do Politically Connected Firms Innovate, Contributing to Long-Term Economic Growth?
Francis, David - 2018
This paper presents new evidence that cronyism reduces long-term economic growth by discouraging firms' innovation activities. The analysis is based on novel establishment survey data from The Arab Republic of Egypt which provides information on establishments' political connections, their...
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Vertical and Horizontal Redistribution : The Cases of Western and Eastern Europe
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2018
European countries have the world's most redistributive tax and transfer systems. Although they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality -- that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor -- less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality,...
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