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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959578
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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
,000 observations of individuals living in 29 European countries. Our results reveal that political and fiscal decentralization have a … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … effect of political decentralization on these variables is more limited. The results show that citizens seem to be happier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403390
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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country’s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763916
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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
are explained in terms of the non-internalization, under decentralization, of the ‘bribe externality’ and the ‘price … externality.’ In welfare terms, decentralization is favoured, relatively speaking, if the tax system is less inefficient, funding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566702
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Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme … political decentralization on student performance in the areas of mathematics, reading skills and science. We observe that … fiscal decentralization exerts an unequivocal positive effect on students' outcomes in all areas, while the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633534
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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government’s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566744
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Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683656
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Stimulating Local Public Employment: Do General Grants Work?
Lundqvist, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists’ minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564700
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Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De)Centralization and Welfare
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
composition. Only when the differences are sufficiently large does full decentralization become the optimal regime. National … conjecture" that fiscal decentralization increases capital accumulation. However, in terms of welfare this result can be reversed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703092
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Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature
Millimet, Daniel L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
the effects of the decentralization of policy decisions such as taxes, expenditures, environmental standards, etc. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960101