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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica - 2012

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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Motivating Bureaucrats With Non-Monetary Incentives When State Capacity Is Weak : Evidence From Large-Scale Field Experiments in Peru

Dustan, Andrew; Maldonado, Stanislao; … - 2019

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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Information technologies and provision of national identification cards by the Bolivian Police : evidence from two randomized natural fields experiments

Chong, Alberto; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo; … - 2014

This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic process: the renewal of a national identification card by the...

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Information technologies and provision of national identification cards by the Bolivian Police : evidence from two randomized natural field experiments

Chong, Alberto; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo; … - 2014

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Information Technologies and Provision of National Identification Cards by the Bolivian Police : Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Field Experiments

Chong, Alberto - 2014

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Improving Scientific Judgments in Law and Government : A Field Experiment of Patent Peer Review

Ho, Daniel E. - 2020

Many have advocated for the expansion of peer review to improve scientific judgments in law and public policy. One such test case is the patent examination process, with numerous commentators arguing that scientific peer review can solve informational deficits in patent determinations. We...

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A Controlled Field Experiment on Corruption

Boly, Amadou - 2014

This paper reports on a controlled field experiment on corruption designed to address two important issues: the experimenter's scrutiny and the unobservability of corruption. In the experiment, a grader is offered a bribe along with a demand for a better grade. We find that graders respond more...

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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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What can experiments tell us about how to improve governance?

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013

measures to address corruption and improve accountability; however, they can provide little traction on whether the …

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Can Corruption be Studied in the Lab? Comparing a Field and a Lab Experiment

Armantier, Olivier; Boly, Amadou - 2014

This paper makes an attempt at testing the external validity of corruption experiments by moving from the lab in a developed country, to where it matters the most, the field in a developing country. In our experiment a candidate proposes a bribe to a grader in order to obtain a better grade. We...

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