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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 Can e-governance reforms improve government policy? By making information available on a real-time basis, information technologies may reduce the theft of public funds.
A. Banerjee +4 more
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Cultural Distance and Ethnic Civil Conflict
Social Science Research NetworkEthnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict, while others do not? I show that civil conflict in Africa is explained by ethnic groups’ cultural distance to the central government: an increase in ...
Eleonora Guarnieri
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Social Ties and the Selection of China’s Political Elite
The American Economic Review, 2020 We study how sharing a hometown or college connection with an incumbent member of China’s Politburo affects a candidate’s likelihood of selection as a new member.
R. Fisman +3 more
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Understanding the Link between Temperature and Crime
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyThe correlation between hot weather and crime is well documented but not fully understood. We combine millions of administrative records, victimization surveys on unreported crime, and daily weather information to analyze the effect of temperatures on ...
F. Cohen, Fidel Gonzalez
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The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics
Social Science Research NetworkWe study the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. Using subnational georeferenced data from 15 countries from 1996 to 2017, we compare individuals from ethnicities linked to parties at the margin of electing a ...
Francesco Amodio +2 more
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The American Economic Review, 2018 This paper examines whether and how market competition affected the political bias of government-owned newspapers in China from 1981 to 2011. We measure media bias based on coverage of government mouthpiece content ( propaganda) relative to commercial ...
Bei Qin, David Strömberg, Yanhui Wu
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The American Economic Review, 2019 Bureaucracies often post staff to better or worse locations, ostensibly to provide incentives. Yet we know little about whether this works, with heterogeneity in preferences over postings impacting effectiveness.
A. Khan, A. Khwaja, Benjamin A. Olken
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Cash and Conflict: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger
American Economic Review: InsightsConflict undermines development, while adverse economic shocks, in turn, can increase conflict risk. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could attenuate conflict risk by raising poor households’ opportunity costs. However, cash transfers may also
Patrick Premand, Dominic Rohner
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The Fundamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development
, 2011 Chenggang Xu
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The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
, 2015 R. Burgess +4 more
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