| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25941 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25941 |
| How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities | |
| Jonas Hjort; Diana Moreira; Gautam Rao; Juan Francisco Santini | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-06-17 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper investigates if research findings change political leaders’ beliefs and cause policy change. Collaborating with the National Confederation of Municipalities in Brazil, we work with 2,150 municipalities and the mayors who control their policies. We use experiments to measure mayors’ demand for research information and their response to learning research findings. In one experiment, we find that mayors and other municipal officials are willing to pay to learn the results of impact evaluations, and update their beliefs when informed of the findings. They value larger-sample studies more, while not distinguishing on average between studies conducted in rich and poor countries. In a second experiment, we find that informing mayors about research on a simple and effective policy (reminder letters for taxpayers) increases the probability that their municipality implements the policy by 10 percentage points. In sum, we provide direct evidence that providing research information to political leaders can lead to policy change. Information frictions may thus help explain failures to adopt effective policies. |
| 主题 | Other ; General, Teaching ; Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Economics of Information ; Public Economics ; Development and Growth |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25941 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583615 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jonas Hjort,Diana Moreira,Gautam Rao,et al. How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities. 2019. |
| 条目包含的文件 | ||||||
| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w25941.pdf（5657KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
