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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
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Distributive Politics and the Costs of Centralization
Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
This paper integrates the distributive politics literature with the literature on decentralization by incorporating …. The efficiency of decentralization and the performance of 'constitutional rules' (such as majority voting) which may be … used to choose between decentralization and centralization are then discussed in this framework. Stronger externalities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789145
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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … education expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of schools using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first … provide careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel …
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Explaining Leakage of Public Funds
Reinikka, Ritva; Svensson, Jakob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Using panel data from an unique survey of public primary schools in Uganda we assess the degree of leakage of public funds in education. The survey data reveal that on average, during the period 1991-95, schools received only 13% of what the central government contributed to the schools’...
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Aging Population and Education Finance
Gradstein, Mark; Kaganovich, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Conventional wisdom suggests that aging of population will increase political pressure to tilt the composition of social spending in favour of the elderly, while potentially sacrificing other publicly provided goods such as education. This view seems to be supported by recent empirical findings...
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The French Zones D'Education Prioritaire: Much Ado About Nothing?
Bénabou, Roland; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We provide an assessment of the French ZEP (Zones d’Education Prioritaire), a programme started in 1982 that channels additional resources to schools in disadvantaged areas and encourages the development of new teaching projects. Focusing on middle-schools, we first evaluate the impact of the...
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Improving College Access and Success for Low-Income Students: Evidence from a Large Need-based Grant Program
Fack, Gabrielle; Grenet, Julien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Using comprehensive administrative data on France’s single largest financial aid program, this paper provides new evidence on the impact of large-scale need-based grant programs on the college enrollment decisions, persistence and graduation rates of low-income students. We exploit sharp...
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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth
Ponzetto, Giacomo AM; Troiano, Ugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under-invest in education, whose returns...
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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
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Risk, Resources and Education
Weizsäcker, Robert K von; Wigger, Berthold - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
The paper develops a public education scheme that takes uncertainty aspects of private educational investments explicitly into account. A case is made for tuition fees, which depend on expected return on investments in education. The consideration of uncertainty provides a neglected link between...
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