How does the fragmentation of local governments affect economic activity? We examine this question in the context of a major period of government proliferation in Indonesia in which the number of districts increased by 50 percent from 2000 to 2014. Exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the...

How does the fragmentation of local governments affect economic activity? We examine this question in the context of a major period of decentralization in Indonesia in which the number of local governments increased by 50 percent within a decade. Exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the timing...

How does the fragmentation of local governments affect economic activity? We examine this question in the context of a major period of decentralization in Indonesia in which the number of local governments increased by 50 percent within a decade. Exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the timing...

How does the fragmentation of local governments affect economic activity? We examine this question in the context of a major period of government proliferation in Indonesia in which the number of districts increased by 50 percent from 2000 to 2014. Exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the...

How does the fragmentation of local governments affect economic activity? We examine this question in the context of a major period of government proliferation in Indonesia in which the number of districts increased by 50 percent from 2000 to 2014. Exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the...