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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2021

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

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Jobs, Crime, and Votes : A Short-Run Evaluation of the Refugee Crisis in Germany

Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...

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The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences : Evidence from Post-Wwii Southern Germany

Fiorini, Luciana Costa - 2020

Populous communities often prefer more government involvement than less populous communities, but does community size per se affect citizens' preferences for government? Endogeneity commonly prevents testing for causal effects because (i) people can select into communities while (ii) government...

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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior : Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment

Mir Djawadi, Behnud - 2013

particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of bribes are involved and the detection rate is rather low. To … conducting a real effort task in every period.Independent of the treatments we already find high rates of corruption in very … observed in the corruption experiment. We explain our findings by a systematic underestimation of the overall probability of …

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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Hunt, Jennifer - 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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Turning Relative Deprivation into a Performance Incentive Device

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2021

The inclination of individuals to improve their performance when it lags behind that of others with whom they naturally compare themselves can be harnessed to optimize the individuals' effort in work and study. In a given set of individuals, we characterize each individual by his relative...

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Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation

Epstein, Gil S. - 2014

Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...

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The Politicians' Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...

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Politics in the Family : Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms

Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016

In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...

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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition

Becker, Johannes - 2008

This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings. The main hypothesis is that the amount of time spent...

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