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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
Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403390
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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
The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633534
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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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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
We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy’s bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566702
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War and Endogenous Democracy
Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
international conflicts on domestic political institutions. We argue that mass-armies, which appeared in Europe after the French … through the extension of franchise. This is because democracy always implements a highly redistributive fiscal policy, which … makes fighting hard incentive-compatible for the citizens-soldiers. We show that a transition to democracy is more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822286
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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667865
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Taxes and Benefits: Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?
Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While there is an extensive literature on tax evasion a further aspect of cheating on the state, namely benefit fraud, has gained relatively modest attention in the economic literature. This paper seeks to fill this gap. We explore differences between benefit fraud and tax evasion due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822596
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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence
Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822607
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Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation
Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon; Chang, Yuan-Ching - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822632