This paper investigates the relative efficiency of traditional leaders when informally taxing citizens in low-income states and whether this comes at the expense of relatively poor households. I design a field experiment to measure whether citizens …
We explore the governance challenge of how to get high human capital, high integrity, representative citizens to put themselves forward for consideration as political candidates. To do so, we evaluate an intervention that was designed to tackle this …
Faced with an undersupply of critical public infrastructure, the government of Zambia drastically increased amount of funding allocated to the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). This approach aims to decentralize government spending by having …
The high failure rate of new businesses in Colombia suggests a high entry rate among entrepreneurs with only low success potential. We test the hypothesis that this may be driven by the tendency to incorrectly estimate their success likelihoods. …