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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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The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 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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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India

Balasubramaniam, Divya - 2014

We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to public goods usually aggregate different types of...

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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US

Giulietti, Corrado - 2015

Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...

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Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods

Feler, Leo - 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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The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates

Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne; … - 2021

Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty estimates. Unlike the standard approach in studies of the...

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Time to Vote?

Gibson, John - 2011

Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure these costs outside of a few spatially limited case studies. In this paper, we apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to validated national election survey data from New...

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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees

Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2011

This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...

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An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay

Kwiek, Maksymilian - 2015

A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority is reached. We study experimentally welfare properties of simple three-voter conclaves with privately known preferences over two outcomes and waiting costs. The resulting game...

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Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds

Finan, Frederico - 2016

It is widely believed that politicians allocate public resources in ways to maximize political gains. But what is less clear is whether this comes at a cost to welfare; and if so, whether alternative electoral rules can help reduce these costs. In this paper, we address both of these questions by...

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