Impact evaluations of poverty alleviation programmes often do not take into account political placement and implementation effort while estimating effectiveness. This can give rise to biased estimates if politicians make ...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries of Southeast Asia. Difference General Method of Moments (GMM) is utilized to take advantage of ...

Since the failure of the Doha round of negotiations, the number of trade agreements between countries has increased exponentially worldwide. The premise being that trade agreements tie nations closer together lessening the ...

How does an economies regime type affect corruption rates observed within a nation? Past empirical studies have looked at both regime type and corruption rates using several different techniques; however past empirical ...

Income inequality finds a prominent place in contemporary political and economic debates. I demonstrate that sustained exchange rate undervaluation increases inequality, building on research linking undervaluation with ...

One of the objectives of public policy is to attempt to address the unintended consequences of our individual and collective activities as a society. Various federal agencies are charged with regulating these "externalities" ...

The past decade has seen a push towards rigorous policy evaluation and new, exciting methodologies have evolved to get a better sense of how effective policy interventions are in achieving their desired outcomes. Unfortunately, ...

This paper contributes to the recent literature examining the correlation between Internet usage and civic engagement. While previous studies focused primarily on voting as a proxy for civic engagement, this paper included ...

This paper evaluates whether politician identity, and in particular, the party affiliation of legislators affects employment and welfare outcomes for minorities in India. I combine data on the outcome of close elections ...

This thesis investigates the influence of business on the public policymaking process in the United States. A framework is proposed for categorizing policymaking contexts and mechanisms of influence, synthesized from ...