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commitments to pursue group interests. Other work, however, emphasizes the lack of political credibility as a source of adverse … these positions. The evidence is inconsistent with the credibility of party commitments to pursue collective ethnic … preferences are more affected by factors, such as gift-giving, often associated with low political credibility. These findings …
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This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes...
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coups. But while reducing the risk of conflict overall, increasing credibility can, over some range, worsen the effects of … natural resources and ethnic fragmentation on civil war. Empirical tests using various measures of political credibility …
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information and politician credibility. Parties organized around particular individuals, rather than around policy labels or a … voter information and political credibility, and to limit political budget cycles. Previous research has also shown larger …
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-electoral transfers in a world of full political credibility. The enforcement of a prohibition on vote-buying reduces the welfare of those …
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Most analyses of conflict assume that conflicting groups act in a unitary fashion. This assumption is often violated: to reduce their risk of replacement, group leaders prevent both group members and soldiers from acting collectively, making it difficult for leaders to make credible commitments...
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This paper explores the hypothesis that the credibility of economic policy making in Argentina (or lack thereof) has … economic outcomes over the quarter century is presented, informed by a survey of the literature on credibility and the …, combined with international experience, is then used to consider policy options that could help reestablish credibility during …
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The authors compare the welfare effects of in situ slum upgrading programs with programs that provide slum dwellers with better housing in a new location. Evaluating the welfare effects of slum upgrading and resettlement programs requires estimating models of residential location choice, in...
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This paper examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. The data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts. Despite oDesk minimizing many of the frictions that diaspora connections have traditionally overcome, diaspora...
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This paper reviews the existing literature on the impact of migrants networks on the patterns of international migration. It covers the theoretical channels at stake in the global effect of the networks. It identifies the key issues, namely the impact on size, selection and concentration of the...
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