, our results suggest symmetry between farmers' reported demand and the types of projects implemented in their villages. The … relative contribution of local demand to project implementation is seen to vary, however, across different types of public …

Earlier studies estimating the demand for local public services by means of the median voter model have typically … assumed exogenous regressors and static set-ups. Furthermore, the commonly used log-linear specification of the demand … rationalised by a Cobb-Douglas utility function. This implies that the log-linear specification of the demand function is valid as …