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delivery outcomes. -- Bolivia ; transparency ; accountability ; local-level monitoring ; bureaucratic delay … voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub … governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …
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delivery outcomes. -- Bolivia ; transparency ; accountability ; local-level monitoring ; bureaucratic delay … voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub …-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …
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voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub …-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting … mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have limited …
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We study how non-monetary incentives, motivated by recent advances in behavioral economics, affect civil servant performance in a context where state capacity is weak. We collaborated with a government agency in Peru to experimentally vary the content of text messages targeted to civil servants...
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Barro-Ferejohn model of political agency to study the relationship between the accountability of elected politicians and the … political accountability, the lower should be real authority at the bottom of the government hierarchy. Empirically, we find … that in countries with lower political accountability those in political power have less authority over the public …
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Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate feedback in public officials' incentives. The main novelty of our proposal is to allow citizens to directly influence officials' pay. We consider a situation in which entrepreneurs...
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