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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks

Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...

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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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Why not fully spend a conditional block grant?

Faber, Riemer P.; Koning, Pierre - 2012

This paper studies a conditional block grant that Dutch municipalities receive for welfare-to-work programs. Many municipalities do not fully use this grant, although programs are beneficial for them. We argue that municipalities incur expenses to use the grant. If these costs are substantial,...

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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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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Dark half: decentralized bargaining and well-being at work

Maczulskij, Terhi; Haapanen, Mika; Kauhanen, Antti; … - 2021

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 …

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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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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

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

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Making aid work : governance and decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...

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