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Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By Pablo Balán, Augustin Bergeron, Gabriel Tourek, and Jonathan L. Weigel

American Economic Review, March 2022

This paper investigates the trade-offs between local elites and state agents as tax collectors in low-capacity states. We study a randomized policy experiment assigning neighborhoods of a large Congolese city to property tax collection by city chiefs or s...

False Positives and Transparency

By Jonathan Libgober

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2022

I develop a theoretical model of costly information acquisition in order to evaluate transparency requirements in empirical research. A sender chooses an experiment characterized by multiple dimensions, while a receiver observes the experiment's outcome (...