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The political economy of public sector absence : experimental evidence from Pakistan
Callen, Michael; Gulzar, Saad; Hasanain, Ali; Khan, … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521747
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The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Callen, Michael - 2016
-scale randomized control evaluation in Punjab, Pakistan of a reform designed to address this problem. The reform affects healthcare for … doctor attendance. The scale of the experiment permits an investigation into the mechanisms underlying this result. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989118
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The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Callen, Michael - 2016
-scale randomized control evaluation in Punjab, Pakistan of a reform designed to address this problem. The reform affects healthcare for … doctor attendance. The scale of the experiment permits an investigation into the mechanisms underlying this result. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456336
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The Political Economy of Public Employee Absence : Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Callen, Michael Joseph; Gulzar, Saad; Hasanain, Syed Ali; … - 2013
that politicians provide public jobs with limited work requirements as patronage. We test this patronage hypothesis in … Pakistan using: (i) a randomized controlled evaluation of a novel smartphone absence monitoring technology; (ii) data on … election outcomes in the 240 constituencies where the experiment took place; (iii) attendance recorded during unannounced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154336
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Reporting peers' wrongdoing : evidence on the effect of incentives on morally controversial behavior
Fiorin, Stefano - In: Journal of the European Economic Association : JEEA 21 (2023) 3, pp. 1033-1071
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316860
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Determinants of employment in the ministerial bureaucracy
Brändle, Thomas - 2012
-profile occupational group from a political economics perspective. We analyze how political partisanship, political patronage after changes … selection of public servants has on senior official employment. We find some evidence for political patronage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565331
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Intergenerational transfers of public sector jobs : a shred of evidence on nepotism
Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Public choice 141 (2009) 1/2, pp. 167-188
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Cronyism
Martins, Pedro S. - 2010
Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. Motivated by a simple model of cronyism that predicts spikes in appointments to state-owned firms near elections, we regress 1980-2008 monthly hirings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312938
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Civil service recruitment in Comoros : a case of political clientelism in a decentralized state
Rose, Jonathan; Gowthaman, Balachandran - 2015
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Traveling agents: political change and bureaucratic turnover in India
Lakshmi Iyer; Mani, Anandi - In: The review of economics and statistics 94 (2012) 3, pp. 723-739
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