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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 … magnitude of their contractibility problems. The empirical studies point at rather favourable outsourcing outcomes, in terms of …

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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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Tacit Lobbying Agreements : An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens - 2011

We experimentally study the common wisdom that money buys political influence. In the game, one lobbyist has the opportunity to influence redistributive tax policies in her favor by transferring money to two competing candidates. The success of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not...

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Diversity and Public Goods : A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation

Algan, Yann - 2011

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...

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Liberty and the Post-Utilitarian Society

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012

Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals. Recently economists' assumption of rational actors has come under sustained attack. Behavioural economics has suggested that people are plagued by irrational biases and...

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How Large is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets

Stampini, Marco - 2012

In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most simple and fundamental question remains unanswered: how large is the African private sector? We present novel estimates of the size of the private sector in 50 African...

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Consensual and Conflictual Democratization

Cervellati, Matteo - 2007

We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where heterogeneous individuals can get involved in predation activities. The features of democracies are shown to be crucially related to the conditions under which democratization initially...

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Repeated Shocks and Preferences for Redistribution

Gualtieri, Giovanni - 2019

A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...

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