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-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 …
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-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 …
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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 …
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-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. …
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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...
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