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Henderson, J. Vernon; Kuncoro, Ari - 2021

reduction in regulation in better funded localities. The findings are directly relevant to Indonesia where corruption is high …Bribes by firms in Indonesia arise principally from regulations --licenses and levies --imposed by local government … latter is capitalized into lower salaries needed by localities to compensate public officials. Localities in Indonesia are …

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Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis

Alsan, Marcella; Braghieri, Luca; Eichmeyer, Sarah; … - 2021

Major crises—from terrorist attacks to outbreaks of disease—bring the trade-off between individual civil liberties and national security or well-being into sharp relief. In this paper, we study to what extent individual preferences for protecting rights and civil liberties are elastic to...

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International Migration and Human Rights

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice, it encompasses the right to move internally within a country, the right to move abroad, and the right to return from abroad. It does not include the right of an individual...

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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights

Qian, Nancy - 2010

This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...

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White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy

Elliott, Kimberly Ann; Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

With the continuing expansion of global economic integration, labor standards in developing countries have become a hot button issue. One result has been a proliferation of efforts to use the market to put pressure directly on multinational corporations to improve wages and working conditions in...

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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study

Edwards, Sebastian - 2014

We investigate whether the inclusion of social rights in political constitutions affects social performance. More specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational outcomes." We rely on data for 61 countries that...

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Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia

de Ree, Joppe - 2016

first experimental evidence on this question in the context of a unique policy change in Indonesia that led to a permanent …

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The Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration : Evidence from Indonesia

Bryan, Gharad - 2017

We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia …

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Status Goods : Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017

This paper provides novel field-experimental evidence on status goods. We work with an Indonesian bank that markets platinum credit cards to high-income customers. In a first experiment, we show that demand for the platinum card greatly exceeds demand for a nondescript control product with...

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Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs : Experimental Evidence from Indonesia

Cahyadi, Nur - 2018

impacts of Indonesia's cash transfer program (PKH) six years after the program launched, using data from about 14 …,000 households in 360 sub-districts across Indonesia, taking advantage of the fact that treatment and control locations remained …

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