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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; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots...

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Police and Crime: Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring

Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which the Parliament, the President, and the Court of Auditors...

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...

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Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Keller, Katarina; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that...

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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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Slovakia: A Catching Up Euro Area Member In and Out of the Crisis

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Klein, Caroline; Price, Robert; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The Slovak economy experienced a strong but short recession in 2009. The recovery afterwards was driven by exports and investment. While GDP growth was one of the strongest in OECD, employment did not reach the pre-crisis level and unemployment remains stubbornly high. This paper argues that...

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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

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

correlates with perceptions of corruption. We find judicial independence to be of major relevance for a tamed bureaucracy. …

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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...

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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of...

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The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A

Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a … judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the … determinants of match rigging and use this information in identifying corruption episodes in years in which there are no pending …

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