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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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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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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
divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu … religion) have lower access to tap water than correspondingly homogeneous communities. Communities that are fragmented across …
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Remittances to Latin America from Migrants in the United States : Assessing the Impact of Amnesty Programs
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2014
migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on …
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Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
Gambetti, Luca - 2017
, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period …
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Incentives in the Public Sector : Evidence from a Government Agency
Burgess, Simon M. - 2012
This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We...
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Governance and Public Service Delivery in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2017
Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes the findings of the International Growth Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public...
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Understanding Access Barriers to Public Services : Lessons from a Randomized Domestic Violence Intervention
Koppensteiner, Martin - 2019
We study the effect of reducing barriers to accessing non-police services on the demand for police services in cases of police-reported domestic violence. Variation comes from a large randomized controlled trial designed to assist victims in accessing non-police services and we link information...
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Outsourcing Public Services : Contractibility, Cost, and Quality
Andersson, Fredrik - 2019
We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The...
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