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Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India

Jain, Chandan; Kashyap, Shagun; Lahoti, Rahul; Sahoo, Soham - 2022

investigate the impact of electing an educated politician on economic development in the politician's constituency in India. We …

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Governance and Public Service Delivery in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2017

Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public service delivery in India. Existing research suggests that the … corruption. There is near consensus, however, that India has had limited success in reducing poverty and enhancing human capital … incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …

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Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2012

The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22...

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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2011

This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses microdata from the four available waves of the...

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Leader Networks and Transaction Costs : A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting

Chau, Nancy H. - 2016

Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas, and investigate the role of leader networks on the boundary between jurisdictions that embrace trade versus autarky....

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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John - 2007

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica - 2014

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform

Bernecker, Andreas - 2015

We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a political agency model, our empirical results suggest that...

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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints : A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design

Grembi, Veronica - 2012

We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...

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Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality : Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

Firpo, Sergio - 2012

School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact positively students' performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional restrictions to establish rewards and sanctions to...

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