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Ingratiation and favoritism : experimental evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - 2012
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Clientelism and development: is there a poverty trap?
Stokes, Susan Carol - 2021
There are sound theoretical reasons to expect clientelism to suppress economic growth: politicians who garner support … constraint is met with low wages. Hence, clientelism can become a poverty trap. Yet in many countries, the heyday of political … clientelism coincided with periods of rapid economic growth. I offer preliminary evidence of this coincidence of clientelism and …
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Two-sided Nepotism and Life Expectancy : A Theory of Dynastic Management
Zhang, Yanren - 2019
Over the last two centuries, impressive progress in health has led to great increases in life expectancy at all ages. The impact of the "health transition" on the governance pattern of family firms has never been formally investigated. To probe how firm governance adapts to rising human life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899953
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Managerial Incentives and Favoritism in Promotion Decisions : Theory and Field Evidence
Berger, Johannes - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we theoretically show that favoritism leads to a lower quality of promotion decisions and in turn lower efforts. But the effect can be mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for...
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Managerial incentives and favoritism in promotion decisions : theory and field evidence
Berger, Johannes; Herbertz, Claus; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we theoretically show that favoritism leads to a lower quality of promotion decisions and in turn lower efforts. But the effect can be mitigated by pay-for-performance incentives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232290
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Favoritism in the Public Provision of Goods in Developing Countries
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004
queuing theory to first show that when allocating goods publically, a case can be made for favoring a particular group of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028846
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Power, scrutiny, and congressmen's favoritism for friends' firms
Do, Quoc-Anh; Lee, Yen Teik; Nguyen, Bang Dang; Nguyen, … - 2023
Does higher office always lead to more favoritism? We argue that firms may lose their benefit from a connected politicians ascent to higher office, if it entails stricter scrutiny that may reduce favoritism. Around close Congress elections, we find RDD-based evidence of this adverse effect that...
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Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hufschmidt, Patrick - 2021
We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442303
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455710