governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on … institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a … significant positive association between political decentralization and institutional births. We also find that the increased …

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …

separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in Finland. Our regression results with individual … employees in blue-collar intensive firms show quite strong and negative responses to decentralization. Decentralization affects …. Whether the mechanisms between decentralization and worker's well-being is explained by pay dispersion, wage level, or …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

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 …