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Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds

Finan, Frederico S. - 2016

funds. We use data from Brazil's federal legislature, which grants each federal legislator a budget to fund public projects … limits also reduce distortions, but come at the cost of more corruption, which makes it a welfare-reducing policy …

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The Political Resource Curse

Brollo, Fernanda - 2010

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence refers to municipalities in Brazil, where federal transfers to municipal … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed …

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Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing

Elinder, Mikael - 2012

Given the intensive and ideologically charged debate over the use of private contractors for publicly funded services, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of economic efficiency. Starting out from different...

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Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods : Experimental Evidence

Corazzini, Luca - 2019

When multiple charities, social programs and community projects simultaneously vie for funding, donors risk miscoordinating their contributions leading to an inefficient distribution of funding across projects. Community chests and other intermediary organizations facilitate coordination among...

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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government : Evidence from Swiss Cantons

Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben - 2021

Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between expenditure decentralization and the productive...

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Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks : Implications of Recent Evidence

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022

The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the...

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Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of new...

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The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Contributions and Punishment : First Evidence

Clark, Jeremy - 2017

We implement a one-week partial sleep restriction protocol to investigate the effect of sleep deprivation on joint production in a standard voluntary contributions mechanism (VCM) experiment. Additionally, the effect of sleep restriction on an individual's likelihood of sending costly peer...

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Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2018

This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by...

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Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2010

This paper presents the first estimates of the causal effect of facilities for prenatal sex diagnosis on the sex ratio at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births. Treated births are those that occur after prenatal sex...

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