IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6722

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

published as 'Decentralization and the Quality of Public Services: Cross-Country Evidence from Educational Data' in: Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space, 2019, 37 (7), 1296-1316

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6722

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

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Enric Meix-Llop

published as 'Decentralization and the Quality of Public Services: Cross-Country Evidence from Educational Data' in: Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space, 2019, 37 (7), 1296-1316

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6185

Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Eric A. Hanushek, Susanne Link, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 104, 212-232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6176

Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining

Christian M. Dahl, Daniel le Maire, Jakob R. Munch

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 501-533

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5647

Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions

Luis Diaz-Serrano, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

published as 'Decentralization, Subjective Well-Being and the Perception of Institutions' in: Kyklos, 2012, 65 (2), 179-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5382

Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance

Alain de Janvry, Frederico S. Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (3), 672 - 685

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5286

Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?

Sarmistha Pal, Jaideep Roy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5281

Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure: Evidence from a Decentralised Economy

Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5208

Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation: Theory and an Example from Indonesia

Mark M. Pitt, Nidhiya Menon

published as 'Spatial Decentralization and Programme Evaluation: Theory and an Example' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81 (3), 511 - 539

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4574

The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties

George W. Hammond, Mehmet S. Tosun

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2010, 20 (10), 1-18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4259

Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis

Axel Dreher, Justina A.V. Fischer

published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51 (4), 981 - 1002

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3585

Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89(1), 12-18