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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh

Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

panel data set assembled from official social audit reports, we study the impact of these audits on MGNREGA delivery in … Andhra Pradesh, India. Within a dynamic conceptual framework where beneficiaries, auditors and transgressors interact and … are laid out and credibly enforced. Our findings suggest a changing anatomy of corruption, where transgressors keep one …

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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...

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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India

Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …

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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

Deschenes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade market, which dramatically reduced NOx emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich...

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...

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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities

Berger, Mark C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Peter, Klara … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The existence of compensating differentials in Russian labor and housing markets is examined using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) augmented by city and regional-specific characteristics from other sources. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we...

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Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges

Blomquist, Glenn C.; Coomes, Paul A.; Jepsen, Christopher; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and socially-desirable outcomes are strong, but disentangling the effect of education from other causal...

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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...

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Immigration and Public Spending

Böheim, René; Mayr, Karin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily...

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