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Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan

The American Economic Review
Digitization 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Curbing Leakage in Public Programs: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy

The American Economic Review
Targeted price subsidies create a gap between subsidized and unsubsidized prices. The resulting dual pricing can lead to arbitrage opportunities where intermediaries divert subsidized goods to unintended beneficiaries via the black market.
P. Barnwal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reversing the Resource Curse: Foreign Corruption Regulation and the Local Economic Benefits of Resource Extraction

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We examine how foreign corruption regulation affects the economic benefits communities receive from extraction activities in the resource-rich areas of Africa.
H. Christensen, Mark Maffett, Thomas Rauter   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services

The American Economic Review, 2017
We study how political turnover in mayoral elections in Brazil affects public service provision by local governments. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design for close elections, we find that municipalities with a new party in office experience ...
M. Akhtari, Diana B. Moreira, L. Trucco
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Corporate Taxation and Evasion Responses: Evidence from a Minimum Tax in Honduras

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We study corporate responses to a minimum income tax, using the universe of corporate tax filings in Honduras. The policy design allows us to separately estimate cost misreporting under profit taxation and the elasticity of reported revenue.
Felipe Lobel, Thiago Scot, Pedro Zúñiga   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence From India

Social Science Research Network
Developing countries have increasingly decentralized power to local governments. This paper studies the implications of a central element of decentralization (polity size) using population-based discontinuities that determine local government boundaries ...
Veda Narasimhan, Jeffrey Weaver
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Confiance, vulnérabilité et résilience : le paradoxe des stratégies de diversification maraîchères en Martinique

Mondes en Développement
Si la confiance exprime la volonté d'une partie d'être vulnérable aux actions d'une autre partie, les stratégies de diversification, destinées à réduire les vulnérabilités, peuvent paradoxalement affaiblir la confiance.
L. Parrot, Margaux Varenne
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Determinations of structure and bonding in vitreous B2O3 by means of B10, B11, and O17 NMR

, 1977
G. Jellison, L. W. Panek, P. J. Bray, G. B. Rouse   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fighting Crime in Lawless Areas: Evidence from Slums in Rio de Janeiro

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We use Rio de Janeiro’s slum pacification program initiated in 2008 to analyze the effect of policies targeting crime in lawless areas. We correct the bias from the unobserved rise in crime reporting via the use of a proxy variable and bounded variation ...
Christophe Bellégo, J. Drouard
semanticscholar   +1 more source