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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Schweiger G   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Impacts of road development in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for holistic perspectives in research and policy. [PDF]

open access: yesiScience
Biber-Freudenberger L   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hinging Prejudices and Stereotypes in Mathematics. [PDF]

open access: yesTopoi (Dordr)
Fairhurst J, Pérez-Escobar JA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cronyism [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. Motivated by a simple model of cronyism that predicts spikes in appointments to state-owned firms near elections, we regress 1980-2008 monthly hirings across all state-owned Portuguese firms on the country's ...
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