Ideas about social policy and its role in development have shifted over time, signaling the difficulty of finding clarity in approaches to…
Patronage—the discretionary allocation of public sector jobs—continues to be a dominant way government is staffed in most Latin American…
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
We use a rich dataset of weekly cigarette sales to examine how consumers adapt their behavior before and after excise tax increases -…
Humans naturally dispose of objects that disgust them. Is this phenomenon so deeply embedded
that even incidental disgust – i.e., where the…
The standard explanation of electoral reform is offered by rational choice accounts. These regard the choice of rules as an elite-level…
A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building
social capital. Yet, despite strong…
This paper asks how strong African Public Financial Management (PFM) has become, after a decade and more of reform. How well do African PFM…
This analysis argues that blame for the financial crisis falls specifically and heavily on a broad range of the private players and public…
Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments, as they provide immediate access to a large and diverse…