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Decentralization and the productive efficiency of government : evidence from Swiss cantons
Barankay, Iwan (contributor); Lockwood, Ben (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003321461
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Decentralization and the productive efficiency of government : evidence from Swiss cantons
Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben - In: Journal of public economics 91 (2007) 5/6, pp. 1197-1218
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003441688
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Decentralization and the productive efficiency of government : evidence from Swiss cantons
Barankay, Iwan (contributor); Lockwood, Ben (contributor) - 2006
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of government using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first provide … careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel regressions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003504673
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Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government : Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Barankay, Iwan; Lockwood, Ben - 2021
Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of government using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first provide … careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel regressions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317305
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793439
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The cost of decentralization : linguistic polarization and the provision of education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016
In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474691
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An analysis of educational attainment in Malta
Gauci, Tiziana M. - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796397
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Conditional cash transfers in education : design features, peer and sibling effects ; evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Bertrand, Marianne; Linden, Leigh L. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712934
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Conditional cash transfers in education : design features, peer and sibling effects evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Bertrand, Marianne; Linden, Leigh L. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716216
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Does college still pay?
Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - In: The economists' voice : top economists take on today's …, (pp. 217-225). 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003645010