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1.

Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14945
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 29 Jun 2020
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Lucie Gadenne, Anders Jensen and Pierre Jean Bachas
University of Warwick, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and World Bank

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Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14919
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 29 Jun 2020
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Christopher Blattman, Horacio Larreguy Arbesu, Benjamin Marx and Otis Reid
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, Harvard University, Sciences Po - Department of Economics and Independent

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3.

Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14912
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 29 Jun 2020
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Monica Martinez-Bravo, Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan
Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI), University of British Columbia (UBC) - Vancouver School of Economics and University of California, Berkeley

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4.

Development Policy Through the Lens of Social Structure

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14876
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 16 Jun 2020
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Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Erika Deserranno and Imran Rasul
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) and University College London - Department of Economics
5.

Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14862
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Jun 2020
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John Cruzatti C., Axel Dreher and Johannes Matzat
Heidelberg University - Alfred Weber Institute for Economics, Heidelberg University and University of Goettingen (Gottingen) - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

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6.

Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14869
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Jun 2020
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Diego Daruich and Raquel Fernández
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of Economics

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7.

Disruptive Innovation and R&D Ownership Structures of the Firm

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14861
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Jun 2020
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Di Guo, Haizhou Huang, Kun Jiang and Chenggang Xu
Brunel University London, China International Capital Corporation Limited, University of Nottingham and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
8.

In Crisis, We Pray: Religiosity and the COVID-19 Pandemic

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14824
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 03 Jun 2020
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Jeanet Bentzen
University of Copenhagen
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Connective Financing - Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14818
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 03 Jun 2020
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Richard Bluhm, Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Brad Parks, Austin Strange and Michael J. Tierney
Leibniz University Hannover, Heidelberg University, University of Goettingen (Gottingen) - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Government and College of William and Mary

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10.

Covid-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility Against Foreigners

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14821
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 03 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2020
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Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlikova and Julie Chytilová
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Charles University in Prague - Institute of Economic Studies, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and Charles University in Prague - Department of Economics
11.

The Effect of the Second World War on the Growth Pattern of Height in Japanese Children: Catch-Up Growth, Critical Windows and the First Thousand Days

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14808
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 28 May 2020
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Eric Schneider, Kota Ogasawara and Tim J. Cole
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Tokyo Institute of Technology and University College London - Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
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Does Poverty Change Labor Supply? Evidence from Multiple Income Effects and 115,579 Bags

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14812
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 May 2020
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Abhijit V. Banerjee, Dean S. Karlan, Hannah Trachtman and Christopher Udry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Yale University and Northwestern University

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13.

Institutions, Opportunism and Prosocial Behavior: Some Experimental Evidence

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14807
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 May 2020
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Antonio Cabrales, Irma Clots-Figueras, Roberto Hernan Gonzalez and Praveen Kujal
University College London - Department of Economics, University of Kent, Université de Bourgogne - Burgundy School of Business and Middlesex University

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Lords and Vassals: Power, Patronage, and the Emergence of Inequality

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14811
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 May 2020
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Robert Akerlof, Hongyi Li and Jonathan Yeo
University of Warwick - Department of Economics, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Nanyang Technological University
15.

Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14752
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 May 2020
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Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Laura Schechter, Felipe Valencia Caicedo and S. Jessica Zhu
Oregon State University - Department of Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison - Agricultural and Applied Economics, Vancouver School of Economics and Precision Agriculture for Developmen

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16.

Aid Crowd-Out: The Effect of NGOs on Government-Provided Public Services

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14755
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 20 May 2020
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Erika Deserranno and Nancy Qian
Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) and Yale University - Department of Economics

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Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14751
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 20 May 2020
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Shilpa Aggarwal, Rebecca Dizon-Ross and Ariel Zucker
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley

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18.

The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14730
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 May 2020
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Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai and Nandini Krishnan
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), University of Padova and World Bank

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Immigration, Innovation, and Growth

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14719
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 20 May 2020
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Konrad Burchardi, Thomas Chaney, Tarek Alexander Hassan, Lisa Tarquinio and Stephen Terry
affiliation not provided to SSRN, SciencesPo - Sciences Po - Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston University and Boston University

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More than Words: Leaders' Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14707
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Nicolas Ajzenman, Tiago Cavalcanti and Daniel Da Mata
Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - Sao Paulo School of Economics, University of Cambridge and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - Sao Paulo School of Economics
21.

Private Health Investments Under Competing Risks: Evidence from Malaria Control in Senegal

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14705
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Pauline Rossi and Paola Villar
University of Amsterdam and Paris School of Economics (PSE)

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22.

The Power of Religion

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14706
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Jeanet Bentzen and Gunes Gokmen
University of Copenhagen and New Economic School (NES)
23.

The Quran and the Sword: The Strategic Game between Autocratic Power, the Military and the Clerics

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14712
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 08 May 2020 Last Revised: 18 May 2020
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Emmanuelle Auriol, Jean‐Philippe Platteau and Thierry Verdier
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), University of Namur and Paris School of Economics (PSE)
24.

Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14689
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Samuel Bazzi, Masyhur Hilmy and Benjamin Marx
Boston University - Department of Economics, Boston University and Sciences Po - Department of Economics

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Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14605
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy and Sergei Guriev
Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - Sao Paulo School of Economics, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Sciences Po

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Voting or Abstaining in 'Managed' Elections? A Field Experiment in Bangladesh

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14608
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Firoz Ahmed, Roland Hodler and Asad Islam
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of St. Gallen and Monash University - Department of Economics
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A New Engel on Price Index and Welfare Estimation

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14550
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 08 May 2020
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David Atkin, Benjamin Faber, Thibault Fally and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, UC Berkeley - ARE Department and UC Berkeley
29.

No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14554
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Southern California - Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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30.

Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14553
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Marshall Burke, Kyle Emerick and Casey Maue
University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University and Stanford University - Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources

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How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms: Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14537
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Ernest Appiah, Kate Baldwin, Dean S. Karlan and Christopher Udry
Pentecost University College, Accra, Yale University, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern University

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Market Competition and Discrimination

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14535
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos and Yves Zenou
Technical University of Munich, University of Southampton and Monash University - Department of Economics

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33.

Why Do People Stay Poor?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14534
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 08 May 2020
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Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak and Anton Heil
affiliation not provided to SSRN, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Economics, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Subjective Expectations and Demand for Contraception

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14526
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 28 May 2020
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Aureo de Paula, Grant Miller and Christine Valente
University College London - Department of Economics, Stanford University - School of Medicine and University of Bristol

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The Price of Remoteness: Product Availability and Local Cost of Living in Ethiopia

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14515
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
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Julien Martin, Florian Mayneris and Ewane Theophile
University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM)
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Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14517
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
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Andres Drenik, Simon Jäger, Pascuel Plotkin and Benjamin Schoefer
Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Independent and University of California, Berkeley

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Geographic Clustering and Resource Reallocation Across Firms in Chinese Industries

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14506
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
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Di Guo, Kun Jiang, Chenggang Xu and Xiyi Yang
Brunel University London, University of Nottingham, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and ShanghaiTech University - School of Entrepreneurship and Management
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Men: Roots and Consequences of Masculinity Norms

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14493
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
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V B, Ralph De Haas and Pauline A. Grosjean
University of Melbourne, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and UNSW Business School, School of Economics
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How Important is the Yellow Pages? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14489
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
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Jenny C Aker, Joshua Evan Blumenstock and Brian Dillon
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, Berkeley and Cornell University
40.

Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14481
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
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Niels Johannesen, Jørgen Juel Andersen and Bob Rijkers
University of Copenhagen, Norwegian School of Management (BI) and World Bank

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41.

Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14482
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
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Johannes Boehm and Ezra Oberfield
Sciences Po and Princeton University
42.

Across-Country Wage Compression in Multinationals

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14465
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
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Jonas Hjort, Xuan Li and Heather Sarsons
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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How Do Taxpayers Respond to Public Disclosure and Social Recognition Programs? Evidence from Pakistan

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14463
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
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Joel B. Slemrod, Obeid Ur Rehman and Mazhar Waseem
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of Manchester
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Information Sharing in a Competitive Microcredit Market

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14464
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
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Jaap W.B. Bos, Ralph De Haas and Matteo Millone
Maastricht University, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and VU University Amsterdam - Department of Finance and Financial Sector Management
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Sweet Child of Mine: Income, Health and Inequality

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14444
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 03 Mar 2020
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Nicolas Berman, Lorenzo Rotunno and Roberta Ziparo
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Aix-Marseille University - Aix-Marseille School of Economics and Aix-Marseille University
46.

The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14416
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Mar 2020
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Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan and Anant Sudarshan
London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Yale University and University of Chicago
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47.

Spatial Mismatches and Imperfect Information in the Job Search

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14414
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 03 Mar 2020
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Abhijit V. Banerjee and Sandra Sequeira
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
48.

Exclusion Bias and the Estimation of Peer Effects

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14386
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 11 Feb 2020
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Bet Caeyers and Marcel Fafchamps
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Stanford University
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Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14382
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Feb 2020
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Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria
Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

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The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14381
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 11 Feb 2020
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Oriana Bandiera, Michael Best, Adnan Khan and Andrea Prat
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), Columbia University, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics

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