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Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie; Foucault, Martial; Rota-Graziosi, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel … suggests that decentralization has a positive overall effect on access to basic services. However, this effect appears to be … services. Decentralization in Benin contributes positively to the reduction of poverty by improving the average access to …

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Suburbanization, Demographic Change and the Consequences for School Finance

Figlio, David; Fletcher, Deborah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The existing literature on the relationship between the share of elderly in a community and the support for local public education has led to mixed results to date. One potential reason behind this is that the share of elderly in a community is endogenous, and it is very difficult to disentangle...

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Cross-border media and nationalism: Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia

DellaVigna, Stefano; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII: the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a decade of peace, cross-border nationalistic Serbian radio triggers ethnic hatred towards Serbs in Croatia. Mostly...

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The Effects of Research & Development Funding On Scientific Productivity: Academic Chemistry, 1990-2009

Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Ginther, Donna K.; Juhl, Ted; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This article examines the relationship between Research & Development (R&D) funding and the production of knowledge by academic chemists. Using articles published, either raw counts or adjusted for quality, we find a strong, positive causal effect of funding on knowledge production. This effect...

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Is This Time Different? The Slowdown in Healthcare Spending

Chandra, Amitabh; Skinner, Jonathan; Holmes, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Why have health care costs moderated in the last decade? Some have suggested the Great Recession alone was the cause, but health expenditure growth in the depths of the recession was nearly identical to growth prior to the recession. Nor can the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can take credit, since...

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How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity

Bailey, Martha J.; Duquette, Nicolas J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the geographic distribution of spending through the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA). Using newly assembled state- and county-level data, the results show that the Johnson administration directed funding in ways consistent with the War on...

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How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies

Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric; Snowberg, Erik - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions from the economic effects of party control of government to...

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Over-optimism in Forecasts by Official Budget Agencies and Its Implications

Frankel, Jeffrey Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

The paper studies forecasts of real growth rates and budget balances made by official government agencies among 33 countries. In general, the forecasts are found: (i) to have a positive average bias, (ii) to be more biased in booms, (iii) to be even more biased at the 3-year horizon than at...

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Tax Expenditures, the Size and Efficiency of Government, and Implications for Budget Reform

Burman, Leonard E.; Phaup, Marvin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

One possible explanation for the difficulty in controlling the budget is that a major component of spending --tax expenditures--receives privileged status. It is treated as tax cuts rather than spending. This paper explores the implications of that classification and illustrates how it can lead...

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In Search of the Multiplier for Federal Spending in the States During the Great Depression

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Kachanovskaya, Valentina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

If there was any time to expect a large peace-time multiplier effect from federal spending in the states, it would have been during the period from 1930 through 1940. Interest rates were near the zero bound, and unemployment rates never fell below 10 percent and there was ample idle capacity. We...

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