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Unequal opportunity and growth in India : a dynamic panel analysis by using survey data
Das, Panchanan - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 2 (2022) 1, pp. 1-8
This study analyses the lack of robust conclusions about the association between inequality and economic growth. On the … inequality and unequal opportunity. The relative index of inequality of opportunity is used as explanatory variable in the growth … regression equation. To find out the direction of causality, we also estimate inequality equation by taking growth as an …
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Lucky you: your case is heard by a seasoned panel : panel effects in the German constitutional court
Engel, Christoph - 2021
The German Constitutional Court is radically different from the (mostly US) courts in which panel effects have been studied so widely. On the one hand, to a large extent, ideological and gender bias are neutralized by design. On the other hand, panels are not randomly composed. This makes it...
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Teacher pay and student performance : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2014
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
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Corruption, Public Investment, and Growth
Tanzi, Vito - 2006
corruption lowers growth. An implication is that economists should be more restrained in their praise of high public sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782148
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Corruption's effect on BRICS countries' economic growth : a panel data analysis
Simo-Kengne, Beatrice D.; Bitterhout, Siphiwo - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 28 (2023) 56, pp. 257-272
Purpose The theoretical debate of corruption's impact on economic growth remains unsettled, making it an empirical … question. This study aims to investigate corruption's effect on BRICS countries' economic growth. Design/methodology/approach A … employed to estimate a growth model as a linear-quadratic function of corruption that accounts for cross-sectional dependence …
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Returns to office in national and local politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2013
We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal effect of being elected on subsequent income. Getting...
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Returns to office in national and local politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2016
We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a regression discontinuity design in any electoral system. We apply the method to the Finnish...
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Effects of innovation on employment : an analysis at the firm level in Bolivia
Foronda, Carlos; Beverinotti, Javier - 2021
This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement …
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
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Who is going to save us now? : bureaucrats, politicians and risky tasks
Raschky, Paul A.; Weck-Hannemann, Hannelore - 2007
The paper compares the policy choices regarding risk-transfer against low-probability-high-loss events between elected and appointed public officials. Empirical evidence using data on U.S. municipality-level shows that appointed city managers are more likely to adopt federal risk-transfer...
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