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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints : A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design

Grembi, Veronica - 2012

We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...

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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 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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The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks

Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2023

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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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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Fiscal Decentralization and Development : How Crucial is Local Politics?

Pal, Sarmistha - 2010

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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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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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2011

,000 observations of individuals living in 29 European countries. Our results reveal that political and fiscal decentralization have a … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … effect of political decentralization on these variables is more limited. The results show that citizens seem to be happier …

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Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality : Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Firpo, Sergio - 2012

School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact positively students' performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional restrictions to establish rewards and sanctions to...

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Police and Crime : Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring

Buonanno, Paolo - 2012

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which the Parliament, the President, and the Court of Auditors...

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Corrupting Learning : Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

Ferraz, Claudio - 2013

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...

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