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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 data from local governments' accounts and from surveys on 18,000 Beninese households performed in 2006 and 2007, our study suggests that decentralization has a positive overall...
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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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Get Rid of Unanimity: The Superiority of Majority Rule with Veto Power
Bouton, Laurent; Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Malherbe, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
A group of agents wants to reform the status quo if and only if this is Pareto improving. Agents have private information and may have common or private objectives, which creates a tension between information aggregation and minority protection. We analyze a simple voting system - majority rule...
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Education and Military Rivalry
Persson, Torsten; Aghion, Philippe; Rouzet, Dorothee - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Using data from the last 150 years in a small set of countries, and from the postwar period in a large set of countries, we show that large investments in state primary education systems tend to occur when countries face military rivals or threats from their neighbors. By contrast, we find that...
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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets
casella, alessandra; Turban, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. The choice is binary and the number of supporters of either alternative is known. We identify a sufficient condition guaranteeing the existence of...
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Vote Trading With and Without Party Leaders
casella, alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas; Turban, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Two groups of voters of known sizes disagree over a single binary decision to be taken by simple majority. Individuals have different, privately observed intensities of preferences and before voting can buy or sell votes among themselves for money. We study the implication of such trading for...
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Consumption Risk-sharing in Social Networks
Szeidl, Adam; Ambrus, Attila; Mobius, Markus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We develop a model of informal risk-sharing in social networks, where relationships between individuals can be used as … social collateral to enforce insurance payments. We characterize incentive compatible risk-sharing arrangements and obtain …-dimensional networks, where people have connections in multiple directions, are sufficiently expansive to allow very good risk-sharing. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628344
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The Curley Effect
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Shleifer, Andrei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. Boston as a consequence stagnated, but Curley kept winning...
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"Make Us a King": Anarchy, Predation, and the State
Grossman, Herschel I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
In order to enforce a collective choice to allocate resource to guarding against predators producers must subject themselves to the state's sovereign power to tax and to spend. But these sovereign powers in hand the state can exploit the producers by taxing and spending for its" own purposes....
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