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Why Government Statisticians Lie? Incentives to Misreport Statistics in an Authoritarian Bureaucracy
Fri, April 8, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT (8:00 to 9:30am CDT), TBABrief Overview
Why do bureaucrats misreport government data? Using qualitative evidence from Vietnam, this paper examines why government statisticians falsify data under pressures from local politicians in authoritarian contexts.