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作者：Dal Bo, Ernesto; Rossi, Martin A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We investigate the determinants of the efficiency of firms with a focus on the role of corruption. We construct a simple theoretical model where corruption increases the factor requirements of firms because it diverts managerial effort away from factor coordination. We then exploit a unique dataset comprising firm-level information on 80 electricity distribution firms from 13 Latin American countries for the years 1994 to 2001. As predicted by the model, we find that more corruption in the cou...
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作者：Horstmann, Ignatius J.; Scharf, Kimberley; Slivinski, Al
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University of Warwick; University of Toronto; University of Toronto
摘要：This paper explores the theoretical relationship between tax relief for private giving and individual location choice. Tax relief for giving may receive political support at the local level because of its distributional effects; however, through its effects on public provision choices, such relief may affect individual location decisions and, in so doing, has an impact on the jurisdictional configurations that can arise in equilibrium. For some demographic parameters it will promote economic s...
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作者：Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sadka, Efraim
作者单位：Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Tel Aviv University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：We consider a model of prejudice-driven discrimination, where the advantaged 'tall' discriminate against the disadvantaged 'short'. We employ an egalitarian social welfare function to compare anti-discrimination legal rules with a non-discriminatory ('height-blind') income tax. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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作者：Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This study provides the first systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of unobserved (unofficial) compensation (i.e., bribes) of public sector employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector counterparts. The gap...
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作者：Hanushek, Eric A.; Kain, John F.; Rivkin, Steven G.; Branch, Gregory F.
作者单位：Stanford University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Amherst College; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Charter schools have become a very popular instrument for reforming public schools, because they expand choices, facilitate local innovation, and provide incentives for the regular public schools while remaining under public control. Despite their conceptual appeal, analysis has been hindered by the selective nature of their student populations. This paper investigates the quality of charter schools in Texas in terms of mathematics and reading achievement and finds that average school quality ...
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作者：Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben
作者单位：University of Warwick; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Warwick
摘要：Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that among other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of government services. This paper is one of the first to evaluate this claim empirically by looking at the association between expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of government using a data set of Swiss cantons. We first provide careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel regressions of Swiss ...
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作者：Breuille, Marie-Laure; Gary-Bobo, Robert J.
作者单位：heSam Universite; Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne; Paris School of Economics; Universite Paris Nanterre; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：In the present article, Tiebout meets Laffont and Tirole in the land of fiscal federalism. A non-trivial Principal-Multi-Agent model is used to characterize the optimal intergovernmental grant schedule, when the cost of local public goods depends on hidden characteristics and actions of local governments, and under citizen free mobility. We show how informational rents, landlords' interests, and citizen mobility interact to produce distortions at both ends of the type space: in particular the ...
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作者：Booker, Kevin; Gilpatric, Scott M.; Gronberg, Timothy; Jansen, Dennis
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：We employ a panel of individual student data on math and reading test performance for five cohorts of students in Texas to study the impact of charter school attendance. We control for school mobility effects and distinguish movement to a charter school from movement within and between traditional public school districts. We find students experience poor test score growth in their initial year in a charter school, but that this is followed by recovery in the subsequent years. Failure to accoun...
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作者：Lopez, Ramon; Galinato, Gregmar I.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This paper empirically documents the effects of subsidizing private goods to the detriment of the government's supply of public goods. We use a new data set from the rural sector in fifteen Latin American countries over the period 1985-2001 collected using a methodology that allows us to separate government subsidies to private goods from expenditures in the provision of public goods. The econometric evidence shows that the government's decision to subsidize either private or public goods has ...
