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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits

Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024

Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...

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The importance of being local? : administrative decentralization and human development

Chaudhary, Latika; Lakshmi Iyer - 2024

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

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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision : evidence from Indonesia

Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012

Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...

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Trade shocks and the provision of local public goods

Feler, Leo; Senses, Mine Zeynep - 2016

We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience relative declines in housing prices and business...

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Community entrepreneurship in deprived neighbourhoods : comparing UK community enterprises with US community development corporations

Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015

Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community development corporations (CDCs), and therefore, that CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the...

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The effect of community-level socio-economic conditions on threatening racial encounters

Antecol, Heather (contributor); … - 2008

This paper contributes to the emerging literature on racial and ethnic tension by analyzing the relationship between local socio-economic conditions and the propensity for outsiders to have threatening racial encounters with insiders. We use unique data for a sample of active-duty Army personnel...

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Small business economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian reservation

Benson, David A.; Lies, Aaron; Okunade, Albert A.; … - 2009

Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...

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Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks?

Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - 2009

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

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Migration creation, diversion, and retention : new deal grants and migration ; 1935 - 1940

Sorensen, Todd A.; Fishback, Price Van Meter; Allen, Samuel - 2007

During the 1930s the federal government embarked upon an ambitious series of grant programs designed to counteract the Great Depression. Public works and relief programs combated unemployment by hiring workers and building social overhead capital while the Agricultural Adjustment Administration...

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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth : evidence from U.S. counties

Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan … counties. -- Fiscal decentralization ; metropolitan ; nonmetropolitan ; population ; employment ; income ; spatial econometrics …

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