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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies : Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India

Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...

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Southern African Economic Integration : Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model

Warin, Thierry - 2009

This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and the foreign reserves position. We also integrate...

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Job Satisfaction Among Young Workers in Eastern and Southern Africa : A Comparative Analysis

McKay, Andrew D. - 2018

The creation of job opportunities for the increasingly educated youth population is a major current policy challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, even though very little is known about the extent to which young workers in the region are satisfied with the employment they currently have. This paper...

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Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation : Theory and an Example from Indonesia

Pitt, Mark M. - 2010

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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Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision : Evidence from Indonesia

Pal, Sarmistha - 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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Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 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 …

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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel - 2009

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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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

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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Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)

Chen, Yiu Por - 2015

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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Decentralizing Education Resources : School Grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 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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