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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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Norms, culture and local infrastructure : evidence from a decentralised economy

Pal, Sarmistha - 2010

Indonesia as a case in point to classify communities strictly adhering to traditional adat laws and Islamic religion as … reflected in the allocation of community spending to these goods. -- decentralization ; collectivist culture ; adat law ; Islam … ; social and physical infrastructure ; allocation of spending ; community development ; Indonesia …

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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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Spillover effects of institutions on cooperative behavior, preferences and beliefs

Englmaier, Florian; Riedl, Arno; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017

Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory experiment to study how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior...

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Social norms, endogenous sorting and the culture of cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2018

Throughout human history, informal sanctions played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of public goods. However, a considerable body of evidence suggests that informal peer sanctions often cause large efficiency costs. This raises the question whether alternative...

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Creating an efficient culture of cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2017

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of public goods. However, a considerable body of evidence suggests that informal peer sanctions cause large collateral damage and efficiency costs....

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Control rights in public-private partnerships

Francesconi, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...

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Fairness and inequality in institution formation

Detemple, Julian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2023

A key solution for public good provision is the voluntary formation of institutions that commit players to cooperate. Such institutions generate inequality if some players decide not to participate but cannot be excluded from cooperation benefits. Prior research with small groups emphasizes the...

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The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investments in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko … - 2014

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 …

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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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