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We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...
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This study analyses which individual and institutional factors (causally) influence individuals in their educational career and in their choice for an occupation. Chapter 2 explores consequences of parental separation for cognitive skill development of children. In the year before parental...
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We measure pre- and post-tax income inequality in Moscow Province in 1811. We collect new data on incomes for 7,399 asset-holding households, including all registered aristocrats and merchants. We estimate the average incomes of 21 additional social groups using financial records from government...
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In the decade before the famine, Ireland experienced a boom in Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). This paper analyses the motivations of MFI proponents and practitioners, and finds evidence linking the boom in MFIs with the introduction of the poor law in 1838. Many contemporary writers saw...
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Looking at the decentralized provision of public education in a middle-income country, this paper estimates the impact … development. In the year 2002, Colombian municipalities were entrusted with autonomous management of their local public education … based solely on a population threshold. I estimate the impact that autonomy has had on education performance across the …
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on fiscal decentralization suggesting that redistribution is most effectively carried out at sub-central levels of … that the decentralization of government expenditure can help achieve a more equal distribution of income. However, several … conditions need to be fulfilled: i) the government sector needs to be sufficiently large, ii) decentralization should be …
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This paper aims at investigating empirically the impact of fiscal decentralization reforms on inequality in well … size of the tax base across Regions, we find that fiscal decentralization processes that attribute a greater tax power to … into account the specific features of the context where the decentralization of power is implemented …
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the degree of fractionalization and polarization across ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups in the national …
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