proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …

in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …

-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …

country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia “excels” in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence … across different ethnic groups. Using information from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Bolivia, we examine the …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the country's education budget. We find large positive effects on test …

educational decentralization closing, for the Swiss case, the gender education gap. …Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of government using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first provide …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went …

This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage … dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization … decentralization. We find a wage premium associated with firm-level bargaining relative to sector-level bargaining, and that the return …