Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

Ernesto Dal Bó is a political economist with a DPhil in Economics from Oxford, and currently a joint appointment in the business school and the political science department at Berkeley. He has also taught at Stanford and currently directs the Berkeley Center for Political Economy (BCEP). He is interested in issues of governance broadly understood. This includes understanding the workings of democracy and the challenges posed by corruption and political influence. Work along these lines includes his paper «Bribing Voters,» which first formalized the advantages of the secrecy of the vote. Ernesto is also interested in the conformation and incentives of political elites, having done work on political dynasties and on the effects of term lengths on the effort of legislators. Recent research includes work (both theoretical and experimental) on morality, on faith, and on the strengthening of government capabilities. To visit Professor Dal Bó’s faculty page, please click here.

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