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In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in Colombia, a country characterized by a long historical prevalence of violent conflicts between the government, the militia group (FARC), drug trafficking, and other crime that...
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We analyze the long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland after World War II on residential migration … resettlement by 2 million Czech inhabitants. Results based on nearest neighbor matching and regression discontinuity design show a …
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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 …
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This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...
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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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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 …
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We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our …. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan …
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decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …
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Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer – such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism...
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This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and … estimate the labor mobility with a modified gravity equation. Given the institutional barriers, the fiscal decentralization has …
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