Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/314064 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Applied Economics [ISSN:] 1667-6726 [Volume:] 22 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 321-348
Publisher: 
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon
Abstract: 
Drawing on an in-depth governance micro-survey of public officials in Bolivia, we address empirically the question of the relative importance of the various determinants of governance. We find that commonly made inferences about policy based on simple correlation can be highly misleading due to the high correlation between the various governance determinants, as well as the endogeneity in these variables. We find that undue emphasis may have been given in the previous work to a number of conventional public-sector management variables (such as civil servant wages, internal enforcement of rules, autonomy of agency by fiat, etc.), while undermining the priority of "external" (to public sector management) variables, such as citizen voice and transparency. The latter set of "voice"-related variables has a larger effect on the service delivery performance and corruption than the more traditional public-sector management type of variables.
Subjects: 
Bolivia
Governance
micro-survey
public sector management
transparency
JEL: 
C36
D73
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Document Type: 
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