Bureaucrats in Russia: The cost of inefficiency How does the productivity of individual bureaucrats affect the overall efficiency of the public sector? Public Economics Jonas Hjort Published 11.12.19
Does China’s bureaucracy work? Analysing the pattern of promotions provides illuminating evidence on current levels of corruption in Chinese bureaucracy Institutions & Political Economy Peter Lorentzen Published 20.02.19
Why are Indian men surprisingly reluctant to cross state borders? India’s system of ‘fragmented entitlements’, whereby state residents get preferential treatment by the state government, hinders internal migration Migration & Urbanisation Zovanga Kone Maggie Y. Liu Aaditya Mattoo Çağlar Özden Siddharth Sharma Published 27.07.18
Justice delayed is justice denied: Speeding up court pre-trials Evidence from Senegal shows that the length of legal pre-trials can be reduced whilst not impacting quality of decisions Institutions & Political Economy Florence Kondylis Mattea Stein Published 14.05.18
Autonomy, incentives, and the effectiveness of bureaucrats Bureaucratic output is negatively associated with monitoring and incentive schemes but positively associated with the autonomy of mid-level bureaucrats Public Economics Imran Rasul Daniel Rogger Martin J. Williams Published 04.09.17
Thank you for your patronage: Discretionary appointments and bureaucrat performance Data on the British Empire show patronage in civil service appointments was a good system for those who got jobs but bad news for almost everyone else Public Economics Guo Xu Published 10.08.17
