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View article: Transparency by Chinese cities reduces pollution violations and improves air quality
Transparency by Chinese cities reduces pollution violations and improves air quality Open
We provide national-scale experimental evidence from China showing that transparency by local governments improves the management of air pollution. Governments that perform better have more reasons to be transparent, making the causal rela…
View article: Survey instrument, data, and code for paper "Freihardt, Buntaine, Bernauer (2024): Choosing to protect: Public support for flood defense over relocation in climate change adaptation. Environmental Research Letters. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad6781"
Survey instrument, data, and code for paper "Freihardt, Buntaine, Bernauer (2024): Choosing to protect: Public support for flood defense over relocation in climate change adaptation. Environmental Research Letters. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad6781" Open
This is the survey instrument, data, and code underlying the manuscript: "Freihardt, Buntaine, Bernauer (2024): Choosing to protect: Public support for flood defense over relocation in climate change adaptation. Environmental Research Lett…
View article: Choosing to protect: public support for flood defense over relocation in climate change adaptation
Choosing to protect: public support for flood defense over relocation in climate change adaptation Open
Policy makers worldwide face tough choices over how to prioritize public funding for adaptation to climate change. One particularly difficult choice is whether to opt for policies that promote relocation away from flood risks or infrastruc…
View article: Social competition drives collective action to reduce informal waste burning in Uganda
Social competition drives collective action to reduce informal waste burning in Uganda Open
Improving urban air quality is a pressing challenge in the Global South. A key source of air pollution is the informal burning of household waste. Reducing informal burning requires governments to develop formal systems for waste disposal …
View article: Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Citizen Participation on Environmental Governance in China
Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Citizen Participation on Environmental Governance in China Open
We conducted a nationwide field experiment in China to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts of assigning firms to public or private citizen appeals when they violate pollution standards. There are three main findings. First, public app…
View article: Social Competition Drives Collective Action to Reduce Informal Waste Burning in Uganda
Social Competition Drives Collective Action to Reduce Informal Waste Burning in Uganda Open
Improving urban air quality is a pressing challenge in the Global South. A key source of air pollution is the informal burning of household waste. Reducing informal burning requires governments to develop formal systems for waste disposal …
View article: The limits of awards for anti‐corruption: Experimental and ethnographic evidence from Uganda
The limits of awards for anti‐corruption: Experimental and ethnographic evidence from Uganda Open
Conventional anti‐corruption approaches focus on detecting and punishing the misuse of public office. These approaches are often ineffective in settings where social norms do not support reporting and punishing corruption. Attempting to bu…
View article: Survey instrument, data, and code for "Freihardt, Buntaine, Bernauer (2023): Public Opinion Is Currently At Odds With Managed Retreat Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation"
Survey instrument, data, and code for "Freihardt, Buntaine, Bernauer (2023): Public Opinion Is Currently At Odds With Managed Retreat Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation" Open
This is the survey instrument, data, and code on which the manuscript "Freihardt, Buntaine, Bernauer (2023): Public Opinion Is Currently At Odds With Managed Retreat Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation" is based.
View article: Recognizing Local Leaders as an Anti-Corruption Strategy: Experimental and Ethnographic Evidence from Uganda
Recognizing Local Leaders as an Anti-Corruption Strategy: Experimental and Ethnographic Evidence from Uganda Open
Conventional anti-corruption approaches focus on detecting and punishing the misuse of public office. Recognizing that these approaches are often ineffective in settings where social norms do not support reporting on and punishing corrupti…
View article: Information about service provision in Uganda is insufficient to affect voting behaviour
Information about service provision in Uganda is insufficient to affect voting behaviour Open
The quality of service provision in Uganda varies greatly across regions and between villages, and yet evidence suggests citizens’ are unable to assess these differences. A research experiment used SMS messages about public services to hel…
View article: Individualized Text Messages about Public Services Fail to Sway Voters: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Ugandan Elections
Individualized Text Messages about Public Services Fail to Sway Voters: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Ugandan Elections Open
Mobile communication technologies can provide citizens access to information that is tailored to their specific circumstances. Such technologies may therefore increase citizens’ ability to vote in line with their interests and hold politic…
View article: Adoption of community monitoring improves common pool resource management across contexts
Adoption of community monitoring improves common pool resource management across contexts Open
Pervasive overuse and degradation of common pool resources (CPRs) is a global concern. To sustainably manage CPRs, effective governance institutions are essential. A large literature has developed to describe the institutional design featu…
View article: Citizen monitoring of waterways decreases pollution in China by supporting government action and oversight
Citizen monitoring of waterways decreases pollution in China by supporting government action and oversight Open
Significance Approximately 70% of China’s rivers and lakes are unsafe for human use. Effective implementation of existing pollution standards can improve the health and well-being of people across China. In this randomized trial, pollution…
View article: Replication Data for: Individualized text messages about public services fail to sway voters: Evidence from a field experiment on Ugandan elections
Replication Data for: Individualized text messages about public services fail to sway voters: Evidence from a field experiment on Ugandan elections Open
This archive contains the scripts and data needed to reproduce all of the tables and figures in the following article: Jablonski, Ryan S. ⓡ Buntaine, Mark T. ⓡ Nielson, Daniel L. ⓡ Pickering, Paula M. 2021. Individualized text messages abo…
View article: Replication Data for: Testing Transparency
Replication Data for: Testing Transparency Open
In modern democracies, governmental transparency is thought to have great value. When it comes to addressing administrative corruption and mismanagement, many would agree with Justice Brandeis’s observation that sunlight is the best disinf…
View article: Replication Data for: Does the Asian Development Bank Respond to Past Environmental Performance when Allocating Environmental Risky Financing?
Replication Data for: Does the Asian Development Bank Respond to Past Environmental Performance when Allocating Environmental Risky Financing? Open
This paper provides an empirical test of whether the Asian Development Bank (ADB) adjusts allocation decisions about environmentally risky projects to reflect borrower environmental performance in previous projects. This type of performanc…
View article: Combining bottom-up monitoring and top-down accountability: A field experiment on managing corruption in Uganda
Combining bottom-up monitoring and top-down accountability: A field experiment on managing corruption in Uganda Open
Citizen monitoring of government performance is often ineffective at improving performance, perhaps because information from monitoring does not make it far enough up in the chain of bureaucracy where the authority to punish public mismana…
View article: The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda
The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda Open
Governments around the world are investing in technologies that allow citizens to participate in the coproduction of public services by providing monitoring and feedback, but there is little evidence about how these initiatives affect the …
View article: Replication Data for: "The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda"
Replication Data for: "The Challenges of Using Citizen Reporting to Improve Public Services: A Field Experiment on Solid Waste Services in Uganda" Open
"Governments around the world are investing in technologies that allow citizens to participate in the coproduction of public services by providing monitoring and feedback, but there is little evidence about how these initiatives impact the…
View article: Replication Data for: Combining Bottom-Up Monitoring and Top-Down Accountability: A Field Experiment on Managing Corruption in Uganda
Replication Data for: Combining Bottom-Up Monitoring and Top-Down Accountability: A Field Experiment on Managing Corruption in Uganda Open
Citizen monitoring of government performance is not often effective at improving performance, perhaps because information from monitoring does not make it far enough up in the chain of bureaucracy where the authority to punish public misma…
View article: Voter Information Campaigns and Political Accountability: Cumulative Findings From a Preregistered Meta-analysis of Coordinated Trials
Voter Information Campaigns and Political Accountability: Cumulative Findings From a Preregistered Meta-analysis of Coordinated Trials Open
Voters may be unable to hold politicians to account if they lack basic information about their representatives’ performance. Civil society groups and international donors therefore advocate using voter information campaigns to improve demo…
View article: bwindi_endline_survey.pdf
bwindi_endline_survey.pdf Open
Copy of instrument used to collect survey data from residents
View article: kcca_replication.R
kcca_replication.R Open
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View article: ReadMe.rtf
ReadMe.rtf Open
ReadMe file that describes all files in the replication package and describes replication procedures
View article: kcca_replication_p3sample.tab
kcca_replication_p3sample.tab Open
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View article: BwindiVillageOrder_190201_JN.tab
BwindiVillageOrder_190201_JN.tab Open
Data on the ordering of villages around the park, to investigate spillover
View article: kcca_replication_p2sample.tab
kcca_replication_p2sample.tab Open
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View article: Audits_Village_Analysis.tab
Audits_Village_Analysis.tab Open
parent data on the field audits conducted in each village