We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where …. Overall, we find that ethnic diversity depresses local development spending post-decentralisation at the community level …

field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital …

allow regional productivity to be taken into account. -- Wages ; collective bargaining ; federalism ; regions ; Belgium …

evaluation, instrumental variables, Indonesia …

. -- decentralisation ; democratisation ; mutual co-operation ; social and physical infrastructure ; local public spending ; Indonesia …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 …

program in Indonesia is significantly associated with increases in crime and declines in social capital within communities …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the "optimal" level of government at which to delegate environmental … literatures. By doing so, the goal is to limit the scope of the debate over environmental federalism moving forward, as well as …