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Firms, Informality, and Development: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
The American Economic Review, 2018 This paper develops and estimates an equilibrium model where heterogeneous firms can exploit two margins of informality: (i) not register their business, the extensive margin; and (ii) hire workers “off the books,” the intensive margin.
Gabriel Ulyssea
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The American Economic Review, 2019 To investigate the enforcement value of third-party information on potentially collusive taxpayers, I study an anti-tax evasion program that rewards consumers for ensuring that firms report sales and establishes a verification system to aid whistle ...
Joana Naritomi
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A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy
Social Science Research NetworkCan machine learning support better governance? This study uses a tree-based, gradient-boosted classifier to predict corruption in Brazilian municipalities using budget data as predictors.
Elliott Ash +2 more
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021 Management matters for firms, but what practices are optimal in hierarchical government organizations? And can skilled managers identify them? A large-scale randomized trial conducted with the police of Rajasthan, India, tested four interventions ...
A. Banerjee +4 more
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Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations
The American Economic Review, 2020 In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence.
Emanuele Colonnelli +2 more
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The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China
The American Economic Review, 2022 We posit that autocrats introduce local elections when their bureaucratic capacity is low. Local elections exploit citizens’ informational advantage in keeping local officials accountable, but they also weaken vertical control.
Monica Martinez-Bravo +3 more
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A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions
Social Science Research NetworkWe propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilitate the first “step,” it may also become a new norm.
Selim Gulesci +5 more
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Social Science Research NetworkThe empirical economics literature on taxation in developing countries has centered on the importance of third-party information for enforcement. Yet, while surely a long-run objective, leveraging such information remains out of reach in many developing ...
A. Jensen, Jonathan L. Weigel
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Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-Income Country
The American Economic Review, 2018 We study the effects of a positive export shock on labor allocation between the informal, microenterprise sector and the formal firm sector in a low-income country. The United States-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement led to large reductions in US tariffs
B. McCaig, Nina Pavcnik
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Public Procurement in Law and Practice
Social Science Research Network, 2020 We examine a new dataset of public procurement laws, practice, and outcomes in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the discretion of the procuring entities.
E. Bosio +3 more
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