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Can Development Programs Counter Insurgencies? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan†
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsWe exploit a randomized controlled trial conducted between 2007 and 2011 to identify the effect of Afghanistan's largest local governance and development program on the strength of the insurgency.
A. Beath, Fotini Christia, R. Enikolopov
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The American Economic Review, 2022
This paper investigates the trade-offs between local elites and state agents as tax collectors in low-capacity states. We study a randomized policy experiment assigning neighborhoods of a large Congolese city to property tax collection by city chiefs or ...
Pablo Balán +3 more
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This paper investigates the trade-offs between local elites and state agents as tax collectors in low-capacity states. We study a randomized policy experiment assigning neighborhoods of a large Congolese city to property tax collection by city chiefs or ...
Pablo Balán +3 more
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The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity
The American Economic ReviewPoliticians may target public goods to benefit their constituents, at the expense of others. I study corruption in the context of Indian electricity and estimate the welfare consequences.
M. Mahadevan
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over Ten Years: Experimental Evidence
American Economic Review: Insights, 2023Several small, short-term, or nonexperimental studies show that cognitive behavioral–informed interventions reduce antisocial behaviors over one to two years, but persistence research is rare.
C. Blattman +3 more
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Information Systems, Service Delivery, and Corruption: Evidence from the Bangladesh Civil Service
Social Science Research NetworkSlow public service delivery and corruption are common problems in low- and middle-income countries. Can better management information systems improve delivery speed? Does improving the delivery speed reduce corruption?
Martin Mattsson
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Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban
The American Economic ReviewWe conduct a field experiment to quantify the impact of the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training.
Chaza Abou Daher +3 more
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Corruption as a Local Advantage: Evidence from the Indigenization of Nigerian Oil
The American Economic ReviewMultinationals in the extractive sectors of weak states face resource theft by armed groups. Criminality is often abetted by state corruption, even though firms are willing to pay for protection.
J. Rexer
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Female Leaders and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from State Elections in India
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyWe study the impact of women's political representation on the well-being of their female constituents, specifically in the domain of health. Increasing women's political representation leads to greater public provision of reproductive health care ...
S. Anukriti, Bilge Erten, P. Mukherjee
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Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan
The American Economic ReviewDigitization reforms have been hailed as an effective way of strengthening state capacity. However, digitization can also fundamentally reshape the organization of bureaucracies.
Shan Aman-Rana, Clement Minaudier
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