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We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...
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We study the economic implications of mineral resource activity for non-mining regions at the grid-level across the African continent. We find that capital cities benefit from mineral resource activity anywhere in the country. Leaders’ birth regions also benefit, but only in autocratic...
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In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...
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In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We manually collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014316811
line with the hypothesis that greater revenue decentralization (measured as sub-national governments' share of own source …
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excluded from the voters' right of the initiative? I study this question by extending the analysis to German direct democracy … 2009, I show that in this sample - and in contrast to the Swiss and US evidence - direct democracy causes an expansion of … their propensity towards exploiting their direct democracy rights and their preferences for local public policies. To …
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We study the effect of direct democracy on local taxation. Our setting is the German federal state of Bavaria, where in …
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excluded from the voters' right of the initiative? I study this question by extending the analysis to German direct democracy … 2009, I show that in this sample and in contrast to the Swiss and US evidence direct democracy causes an expansion of local … towards exploiting their direct democracy rights and their preferences for local public policies. To address this issue I use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229890
We study the effect of direct democracy on local taxation. Our setting is the German federal state of Bavaria, where in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229893
This paper studies the role of direct democracy in ensuring efficient and cost effective provision of goods and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249630