• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Social proximity and bureaucrat performance : evidence from India
  • Contributor: Xu, Guo [VerfasserIn]; Bertrand, Marianne [VerfasserIn]; Burgess, Robin [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: [Cambridge, Massachusetts]: BREAD, the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, December 2018
  • Published in: Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development: BREAD working paper ; 557
    National Bureau of Economic Research: Working papers ; 25389
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 63 Seiten); Illustrationen
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.3386/w25389
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  • Keywords: Soziale Schicht ; Politiker ; Karriereplanung ; Korruption ; Indien ; Graue Literatur
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  • Description: Using exogenous variation in social proximity generated by an allocation rule, we find that bureaucrats assigned to their home states are perceived to be more corrupt and less able to withstand illegitimate political pressure. Despite this, we observe that home officers are more likely to be promoted in the later stages of their careers. To understand this dissonance between performance and promotion we show that incoming Chief Ministers preferentially promote home officers that come from the same home district. Taken together, our results suggest that social proximity hampers bureaucrat performance by facilitating political capture and corruption
  • Access State: Open Access