policy experiment in Indonesia to show how the effects of ethnic diversity on conflict depend on the political units within …

We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel … suggests that decentralization has a positive overall effect on access to basic services. However, this effect appears to be … services. Decentralization in Benin contributes positively to the reduction of poverty by improving the average access to …

Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and non-experimental data on a …

Indonesia where, in randomly selected provinces, the government added questions on flat-screen televisions and cell-phone SIM …

issues empirically by conducting a 400-village field experiment within Indonesia's Conditional Cash Transfer program …

-best allocation and show efficiency can be implemented with decentralization using head taxes. We calibrate the model and compare … decentralization and property taxation are large, dissipating most if not all the potential welfare gains that efficient … decentralization could achieve. In property tax equilibrium centralization is frequently more efficient! An externality in community …

We study the relationship between decentralization of R&D, innovation and firm performance using a novel dataset on the … of 594,903 patents that they hold. We explore the tension between centralization and decentralization of R&D, which … a whole. To do this, we develop two novel measures of decentralization. First, using intra-firm patent assignments, we …