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 …

census data. The results offer support to the identification strategy proposed. -- spatial decentralization, program … evaluation, instrumental variables, Indonesia …

Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence …. -- decentralisation ; democratisation ; mutual co-operation ; social and physical infrastructure ; local public spending ; Indonesia …

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 …

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