Episode 16: Mounu Prem on Patronage and the Quality of Public Sector Employees

The paper discussed in this episode is: “Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations (aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.20181491)”, by Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem, and Edoardo Teso. Other papers discussed in this episode are:
Akhtari, Mitra, Diana Moreira, and Laura Trucco. 2017. “Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover,
and the Quality of Public Services.” forthcoming, American Economic Review