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Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting : Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi

Basurto, Pia M. - 2017

Developing countries spend vast sums on subsidies. Beneficiaries are typically selected via either a proxy-means test (PMT) or through a decentralized identification process led by local leaders. A decentralized allocation may offer informational or accountability advantages, but may be prone to...

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Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie - 2012

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 …

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Minority Underrepresentation in U.S. Cities

Ricca, Federico; Trebbi, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper investigates the patterns of Minority representation and voter registration in U.S. municipal governments. For the period 1981-2020, we report substantial levels of strategic underrepresentation of African American, Asian, and Latino voters in U.S. local politics. Disproportionality...

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Powerful Women : Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

Beaman, Lori A. - 2008

We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders. Villagers who have never been required to have a female leader prefer male leaders and perceive hypothetical female...

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The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State

Giuliano, Paola - 2013

We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...

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Organized Crime and Economic Growth : Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia

Fenizia, Alessandra; Saggio, Raffaele - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find that city council dismissals (CCDs) increase employment, the number of...

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Financing Direct Democracy : Revisiting the Research on Campaign Spending and Citizen Initiatives

de Figueiredo, John M. - 2010

The conventional view in the direct democracy literature is that spending against a measure is more effective than spending in favor of a measure, but the empirical results underlying this conclusion have been questioned by recent research. We argue that the conventional finding is driven by the...

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Public Safety through Private Action : An economic assessment of BIDs, locks, and citizen cooperation

Cook, Philip J. - 2010

Given the central role of private individuals and firms in determining the effectiveness of the criminal justice system, and the quality and availability of criminal opportunities, private actions arguably deserve a central role in the analysis of crime and crime prevention policy. But the...

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Assessing Urban Crime And Its Control : An Overview

Cook, Philip J. - 2008

Urban crime rates in the United States fell markedly during the 1990s and remain at historically low levels. The statistical evidence presented here indicates that that decline, like the crime surge that preceded it, has been largely uncorrelated with changes in socioeconomic conditions across...

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Why Does Democracy Need Education?

Glaeser, Edward - 2006

Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participation, including voting and organizing....

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