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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136490
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023009
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Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation : Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2014
politicians' quality is positively affected by their wage and apply a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design relying on the fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055228
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Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2023
We investigate how female representation impacts policymaking using the example of child care and new hand-collected data on local council elections in Bavaria. RDD estimations (mixed-gender races for last party-specific council seats) show that an additional female councilor accelerates the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096145
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103478
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158510
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060625
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126916
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024940