between the federal and state governments in such a scheme of partial decentralization. Our model suggests that the …

response. In this paper, we explore the effect that competition for residents induced by fiscal decentralization has on 'waste … an additional advantage of fiscal decentralization …

Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has … been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less … decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both developed countries today and the United States and Europe historically …

female child mortality in India, or about 22,000 "missing girls" each year … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases …

this hypothesis using nationally representative data from rural India. We use birth size as a measure of initial health …