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SINGAPORE: The Public Service Division (PSD) said on Monday (Sep 14) that it was reviewing information after a working paper by a US-based research organisation reported that civil servants disproportionately purchased homes near planned but not yet publicly announced MRT stations.<\/span><\/p>\n In response to media queries, PSD said that it was \u201caware of an academic working paper comparing home purchase rates near planned MRT stations\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n The paper reported that \u201ccivil servants, as classified by the authors, disproportionately purchased homes near planned but not yet publicly announced MRT stations\u201d, PSD said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe take any integrity concerns extremely seriously. We are currently reviewing the data and methodology within the paper and will refer to CPIB if there is a material basis to do so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The working paper was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and titled “Do Social Norms Substitute for Enforcement? Evidence from Public Officials’ Home Purchases in Singapore”.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cNBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications,\u201d according to the first page of the paper.<\/span><\/p>\n The paper was authored by Tomasz Piskorski from Columbia University, Jian Zhang from the University of Hong Kong, Amit Seru from Stanford University and Chun Zhao from Stanford University.<\/span><\/p>\n NBER is a Massachusetts-based private, nonprofit research organisation that conducts analyses on major economic issues, according to its website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: The Public Service Division (PSD) said on Monday (Sep 14) that it was reviewing information after a working paper by a US-based research organisation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--Vjnkx1Mi--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_110\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/01\/22\/lan_1188.jpg?itok=6SE1MKnx","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30000,6434,2430,30001,7845,9340,210,15878,10615,697,4118,30002],"class_list":["post-84957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-alleging","tag-bought","tag-civil","tag-disproportionately","tag-government","tag-homes","tag-mrt","tag-reviewing","tag-servants","tag-stations","tag-study","tag-unannounced","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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