MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Corruption 

      Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Mullainathan, Sendhil (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-03-13)
      In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and ...

    • School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools 

      Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-03-12)
      We examine a program that enabled Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) in Kenya to hire novice teachers on short-term contracts, reducing class sizes in grade one from 82 to 44 on average. PTA teachers earned approximately ...

    • On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China 

      Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Qian, Nancy (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-02-29)
      This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by ...