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The Role of Financial Incentives in Recruiting Public Sector Employees

Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan
Martin Rossi
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Social Incentives and Tax Compliance in Bangladesh

Nasiruddin Ahmed
Raj Chetty
Mushfiq Mobarak
Aminur Rahman
Monica Singhal
Researchers studied the impact of an innovative taxpayer recognition program that appealed to business owners’ desires for social recognition on firms’ VAT tax compliance and payment rates in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Preliminary results suggested that in areas where some firms were already paying taxes...
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The Degree of Ethnic Bias in Kenya

Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge
Kjetil Bjorvatn
Simon Galle
Edward Miguel
Daniel Posner
Bertil Tungodden
Kelly Zhang
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Deterring Drunk Driving in India

Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Daniel Keniston
Nina Singh
To investigate which strategies are most effective at preventing drunk driving and reducing traffic accidents, researchers partnered with the Rajasthan Police in India to evaluate an anti-drunk driving program using sobriety testing checkpoints. Overall, the anti-drunk driving program was effective...
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The Impact of Cash vs. In-Kind Transfers on Food Security in India

Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar
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Governance for the Management of Local Public Goods in Kenya

Amrita Ahuja
Matthew Goodkin-Gold
Vivian Hoffmann
Michael Kremer
Ryan Sheely
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The Impact of Information Campaigns on Voter Polarization in Turkey

The researcher evaluated an opposition party’s door-to-door information campaign regarding increases in executive power or executive performance to determine the impact of widespread, non-state-authorized information on voter partisanship. In neighborhoods with majority opposition supporters...
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Increasing Women’s Local Political Participation Through Top-Down and Bottom-Up Training in Indonesia

Eitan Paul
A researcher evaluated the impact of empowerment training for female citizens and training for male council chairs on women's participation in neighborhood associations, known as rukun tetangga (RT) in Malang, East Java, Indonesia.