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 …

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 …

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 …

the degree of fractionalization and polarization across ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups in the national …