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Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hufschmidt, Patrick - 2021

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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Regional redistribution of mineral resource wealth in Africa

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung - 2021

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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Favoritism by the governing elite

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023

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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Favoritism by the governing elite

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023

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

Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Sub-National Government Fiscal Discipline : Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries

Asatryan, Zareh - 2015

line with the hypothesis that greater revenue decentralization (measured as sub-national governments' share of own source …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024369

The Indirect Effects of Direct Democracy : Local Government Size and Non-Budgetary Voter Initiatives

Asatryan, Zareh - 2014

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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The Effect of Direct Democracy on the Level and Structure of Local Taxes

Asatryan, Zareh - 2014

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/10013060361

The indirect effects of direct democracy : local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives

Asatryan, Zareh - 2014

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

The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Heinemann, … - 2014

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

Direct democracy and local government efficiency

Asatryan, Zareh; De Witte, Kristof - 2014

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