This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds … using the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessments of macro, debt, fiscal and structural policies, and … previous studies based on earlier loans are consistent with claims by the World Bank that it has learned from its mistakes with …

an international organization, the World Bank. After randomly assigning treatment to 248 survey participants, the study … World Bank surveyors to turn to sample surveys more often, reducing survey overload in the institution …

This study estimates the impact of Kenya?s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis … results indicate that the post-election violence sharply increased individual risk aversion. Immediately after the crisis, the …

Can democratic elections reduce rent extraction by public decision makers? Existing research suggests that reelection … elections could have an impact on embezzlement, even in the absence of reelection incentives: (1) electoral selection effects …, elections increase citizens' willingness to punish corrupt decision makers, even if their ability to do so remains unchanged …

spending around elections in the presence of younger political parties. Previous research has shown that political budget …

Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics: country where they live and social class … income position (percentile in world income distribution) is explained by only these two pieces of information. Mean country …

This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy loans on the ease of doing business. It finds that … World Bank is more relevant than the amount of resources invested in the project …