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The empire is dead, long live the empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2011

Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...

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Corrupting learning: Evidence from missing federal education funds in Brazil

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - 2012

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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Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities

Englmaier, Florian; Muehlheusser, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; … - 2022

We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial heterogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...

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Public budget composition, fiscal (de)centralization and welfare

Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - 2007

composition. Only when the differences are sufficiently large does full decentralization become the optimal regime. National … that fiscal decentralization increases capital accumulation. However, in terms of welfare this result can be reversed …

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The regional dimension of collective wage bargaining: the case of Belgium

Plasman, Robert; Rusinek, Michael; Tojerow, Ilan - 2008

The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in European countries. Two solutions are generally proposed: the first, encouraged by the European...

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Spatial decentralization and program evaluation: Theory and an example from Indonesia

Pitt, Mark M.; Menon, Nidhiya - 2010

This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...

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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 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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Do fiscal and political decentralization raise students' performance? A cross-country analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Meix-Llop, Enric - 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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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining

Dahl, Christian M.; le Maire, Daniel; Munch, Jakob R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage … dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization … decentralization. We find a wage premium associated with firm-level bargaining relative to sector-level bargaining, and that the return …

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