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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects: Evidence from a field experiment in Bolivia
Machicado, Carlos; Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2012
, transparency, and accountability among grass- roots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub …-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized eld experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice … where mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have …
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Administrative overspending in Indonesian districts: The role of local politics
Suharnoko Sjahrir, Bambang; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2013
administrative spending; instead a lack of political accountability is responsible for this excess. The degree of political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325140
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Proud to Belong: The Impact of Ethics Training on Police Officers in Ghana
Harris, Donna; Borcan, Oana; Serra, Danila; Telli, Henry; … - 2024
We examine the impact of ethics and integrity training on police officers in Ghana through a randomized field experiment. The program, informed by theoretical work on the role of identity and motivation in organizations, aimed to re-activate intrinsic motivations to serve the public, and to...
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Political Turnover Negatively Affects the Quality of Public Services: A Replication
Gallegos, Sebastian - 2023
The politically motivated replacement in local governments is a pervasive fact in our modern democracies. Whether it has causal effects on the quality of public services, such as education, is a critical question and yet understudied. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD) for...
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Power Politics: Electoral Cycles in German Electricity Prices
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Stowasser, Till; … - 2017
We provide evidence that German public energy providers, over which municipality-level politicians hold substantial sway, systematically adjust the pricing of electric energy in response to local electoral cycles. The documented pattern is in line with both, an artificial reduction in prices...
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A framework for transparency in international trade
Bernal Turnes, Paloma; Ernst, Ricardo - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 21 (2015) 1, pp. 1-8
The aim of this paper is to cover the gap in literature about transparency in the context of international trade … facilitation. It focuses on the importance of transparency in achieving growth in international trade and the differences between … and laws is not the only trade policy instrument where transparency becomes important. To build a framework on levels of …
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Dynamic transparency: An audit of Mexico's freedom of information act
Lagunes, Paul; Pocasangre M., Oscar - 2017
Freedom of Information Acts (FOIAs) aim to provide a channeled exchange between citizens and public officials that, irrespective of the citizen's identity, results in the provision of timely, relevant, and often new information about policy. The authors of this paper evaluated Mexico's FOIA by...
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Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity — A Tale of Two States
Gauri, Varun; Jamison, Julian C.; Mazar, Nina; Ozier, Owen - 2019
Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth, but little real-world evidence exists on how to improve it, especially in resource-constrained settings. We conducted a field experiment of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in health facilities in...
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Public officials' treatment of minority clients
Adman, Per; Taghizadeh, Jonas Larsson - 2020
The aim of this paper is to investigate the occurrence of discrimination based on ethnicity in public officials' treatment of welfare clients. Previous research has confirmed the existence of ethnic discrimination, but we argue that further investigations are needed. Field experiments in the...
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Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan
Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael; Faikina, Anastasiia - 2023
Building state capacity is uniquely challenging in fragile states. We report results from a randomized evaluation of a major Afghan government initiative to increase capacity by modernizing its payroll. The reform, which required teachers to biometrically register and receive salary payments via...
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