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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278374
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287663
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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation during the U.S. Welfare Reform
Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2015
We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a political agency model, our empirical results suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307323
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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - 2000
Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country?s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262369
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Corruption and bureaucratic structure in a developing economy
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2006
are explained in terms of the non-internalization, under decentralization, of the 'bribe externality' and the 'price … externality.' In welfare terms, decentralization is favoured, relatively speaking, if the tax system is less inefficient, funding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267880
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Altruism in society: Evidence from a natural experiment involving commuters
Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - 2011
We study social preferences in the form of altruism using data on 959 interactions between random commuters at selected traffic intersections in the city of Brisbane, Australia. By observing real decisions of individual commuters on whether to stop (give way) for others, we find evidence of (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278513
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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - 2014
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421188
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Happy Voters
Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959578
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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10009403390
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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country’s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763916