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Do fiscal and political decentralization raise students' performance? : a cross-country analysis
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric - 2012
exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme … political decentralization on student performance in the areas of mathematics, reading skills and science. We observe that … fiscal decentralization exerts an unequivocal positive effect on students' outcomes in all areas, while the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569606
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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011
,000 observations of individuals living in 29 European countries. Our results reveal that political and fiscal decentralization have a … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … effect of political decentralization on these variables is more limited. The results show that citizens seem to be happier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238531
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Distributional effects of intergovernmental transfers in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Moreno … - 2020
A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463692
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Fiscal decentralization and development : how crucial is local politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155571
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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
are explained in terms of the non-internalization, under decentralization, of the 'bribe externality' and the 'price … externality.' In welfare terms, decentralization is favoured, relatively speaking, if the tax system is less inefficient, funding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330459
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Altruism in society : evidence from a natural experiment involving commuters
Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - 2011
We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected traffic intersections in the city of Brisbane, Australia. By observing real decisions of individual commuters on whether to stop (give way) for others, we find evidence of (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238894
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Trial and error? : Reelection concerns and policy experimentation during the US welfare reform
Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2015
We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a political agency model, our empirical results suggest that...
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Happy voters
Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - 2014
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
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Leader networks and transaction costs : a Chinese experiment in interjurisdictional contracting
Chau, Nancy H.; Qin, Yu; Zhang, Weiwen - 2016
Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas, and investigate the role of leader networks on the boundary between jurisdictions that embrace trade versus autarky....
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