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Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie; Foucault, Martial; Rota-Graziosi, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel … suggests that decentralization has a positive overall effect on access to basic services. However, this effect appears to be … services. Decentralization in Benin contributes positively to the reduction of poverty by improving the average access to …

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Old and Young Politicians

Alesina, Alberto; Troiano, Ugo; Cassidy, Traviss - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We evaluate the effect of a politician’s age on political governance, reelection rates,and policies using data on Italian local governments. Our results suggest that younger politicians are more likely to behave strategically in response to election incentives: they increase spending and...

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The Flypaper Effect

Inman, Robert P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

The flypaper effect results when a dollar of exogenous grants-in-aid leads to significantly greater public spending than an equivalent dollar of citizen income: Money sticks where it hits. Viewing governments as agents for a representative citizen voter, this empirical result is an anomaly. Four...

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Heart of Darkness: Modeling Public-Private Funding Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box

David, Paul A.; Hall, Bronwyn H - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

This paper is a first step toward closing the analytical gap in the extensive literature on the results of interactions between public and private R&D expenditures, and their joint effects on the economy. Econometric studies in this area report a plethora of sometimes confusing and frequently...

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Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico; Moreira, Diana B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...

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The Political Resource Curse

Perotti, Roberto; Tabellini, Guido; Brollo, Fernanda; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence...

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Suburbanization, Demographic Change and the Consequences for School Finance

Figlio, David; Fletcher, Deborah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The existing literature on the relationship between the share of elderly in a community and the support for local public education has led to mixed results to date. One potential reason behind this is that the share of elderly in a community is endogenous, and it is very difficult to disentangle...

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Cross-border media and nationalism: Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia

DellaVigna, Stefano; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII: the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a decade of peace, cross-border nationalistic Serbian radio triggers ethnic hatred towards Serbs in Croatia. Mostly...

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Tradeoffs in the Design of Health Plan Payment Systems: Fit, Power and Balance

Geruso, Michael; McGuire, Thomas G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In many markets, including the new U.S. Exchanges, health insurance plans are paid by risk-adjusted capitation, in some markets combined with reinsurance and other payment mechanisms. This paper proposes three metrics for analyzing the insurer incentives embedded in these complex payment...

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Measuring Price Elasticities for Residential Water Demand with Limited Information

Smith, V. Kerry; Klaiber, H. Allen; Kaminsky, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper exploits the seasonal and annual changes in marginal prices for water to estimate the price elasticity of demand by residential households for water. It uses the changes in distributions of water using the census block group levels in response to changes in marginal prices of water...

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