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The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralization and Human Development
Chaudhary, Latika; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2024
governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …
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Fiscal decentralization and development: How crucial is local politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274661
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Taxation, Social Protection, and Governance Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017
. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico
Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Herrera, … - 2020
A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207829
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Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683656
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Cut Off from New Competition: Threat of Entry and Quality of Primary Care
Brüll, Eduard; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schlenker, Oliver - 2024
We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general practitioners (GPs). We leverage Germany's needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile novel...
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Behavioral Responses to Supply-Side Drug Policy During the Opioid Epidemic
Balestra, Simone; Liebert, Helge; Maestas, Nicole; … - 2022
We investigate behavioral responses to a staggered disruption in the supply of prescription opioids across U.S. states: the introduction of electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). Using administrative datasets, we find PDMPs curtail the proliferation of prescription opioids....
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The Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preferences in a Developing Nation: Findings from the Field
Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Sgroi, Daniel - 2022
We find a strong relationship between risk-loving preferences and cognitive ability which becomes stronger as adherence to the generalized axiom of revealed preference (a proxy for rationality) increases. Our results are taken from a field study of individuals at the very bottom of the income...
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Another Day, Another Visit: Impact of Arkansas' Mandatory Waiting Period for Women Seeking an Abortion by Demographic Groups
Altindag, Onur; Joyce, Theodore J. - 2022
Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling before the abortion can be completed. Thirteen states require that the counseling be given in person necessitating at least two visits to the provider. In April of 2015, Arkansas...
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Estimating Inter-Generational Returns to Medical Care: New Evidence from At-Risk Newborns
Clarke, Damian; Lillo Bustos, Nicolás; Tapia Schythe, … - 2022
Targeted treatments of newborns with delicate health stocks have been shown to have consid­erable returns in terms of survival and later life outcomes. We seek to determine to what degree such treatments are transmitted across generations. We follow three generations of linked micro­-data...
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