What motivates individuals to become politicians? This is an important question in decentralized democracies, where … local politicians play a key role in public goods provision. However, and in emerging economies, bureaucratic hurdles and … concern for reputation, our model predicts that politicians' effort is increasing in their reputation concern. With …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on … significant positive association between political decentralization and institutional births. We also find that the increased …

India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and … providing rural services to the poor. -- decentralization reforms ; service delivery ; in-group favouritism ; field experiment …

often prevails. We study the pro-sociality of politicians' decision-making in a modified dictator game with real politician …