an Eldis Resource
- Motivating politicians: the impacts of monetary incentives on quality and performance
- ( C. Ferraz (ed);F. Finanz (ed) / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2010)
- Governments that guarantee property rights and fight corruption are said to have the right incentives for economic prosperity. However, what determines the quality of government is less understood. Th...
- Electoral accountability and corruption: evidence from the audits of local governments
- ( C. Ferraz;F. Finan / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2009)
- Political institutions can affect corruption. The researcher uses audit reports from an anti-corruption programme in Brazil to construct new measures of political corruption in local governments and t...
- Requiescat in pace? The consequences of high priced funerals in South Africa
- ( A. Case;A. Menendez / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2009)
- In Southern Africa, funerals are generally considered an individual’s most important rite of passage and households may spend the equivalent of a year’s income for an adult’s funeral...
- The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: evidence from demographic and health surveys
- ( A. Case;C. Paxson / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2009)
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This paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, documents the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in 14 sub-Saharan African countries. The authors,...
- Is there a market for voluntary health insurance in developing countries?
- ( M Pauly;F Blavin;S Meghan / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2008)
- In many developing countries about half of all spending on health care is out-of-pocket. This study, from the National Bureau of Economic Research, examines the distribution of such spending according...
- Financial literacy: an essential tool for informed consumer choice?
- ( A. Lusardi / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2008)
- Over the past thirty years, individuals have had to become increasingly responsible for their own financial security following retirement. The shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (...
- Aging and death under a dollar a day
- ( A.V. Banerjee;E. Duflo / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2007)
- This paper uses household survey data from several developing countries to investigate whether the poor - defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP (purchasing power parity) - and th...
- The power of TV: cable television and women's status in India
- ( R. Jensen;E. Oster / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2007)
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This paper explores the effect of the introduction of cable television on gender attitudes in rural India. It finds that the introduction of cable television is associated with improvements i...
- Modeling ineffecient institutions
- ( D. Acemoglu / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2006)
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Many economists and social scientists have recently emphasised the importance of government institutions for economic growth. This paper develops a model to show why inefficient institutions are bu...
- Corruption perceptions vs. corruption reality
- ( B. Olken / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2006)
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Cross-country corruption indexes such as Transparency International’s Corruption Index and the World Bank’s Governance Indicators are used widely to determine a country’s governan...
