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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire … extent of rents in the public bureaucracy. The extent of rents is determined by differences in institutional constraints and … correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

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The Political Resource Curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...

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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency: An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...

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Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions

Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they administered between 2000 and 2005. Identification is achieved...

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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...

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Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico

Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...

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Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The incompetence shown by the government in providing...

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Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India

Prakash, Nishith; Rockmore, Marc; Uppal, Yogesh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The recent increase in the number of criminally accused politicians elected to state assemblies has caused much furor in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their elections to state legislative assemblies on constituency-level...

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Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines

Crost, Benjamin; Felter, Joseph; Mansour, Hani; Rees, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It is not clear, however, whether this association is causal or due to unobserved institutional or cultural factors. This paper examines the relationship between election fraud and...

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Asabiyya: Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...

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