Public investment choices by local and central governments
This paper examines the impacts of devolving authority for public resource allocation to local governments in a setting of limited electoral control. Such a setting differs from that assumed by seminal formal models of devolution, but describes many developing countries. This study presents a formal...
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Oxford University Press
2020
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| author | Kosec, Katrina Mogues, Tewodaj |
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| description | This paper examines the impacts of devolving authority for public resource allocation to local governments in a setting of limited electoral control. Such a setting differs from that assumed by seminal formal models of devolution, but describes many developing countries. This study presents a formal model of this setting and tests it using unique data from a natural experiment in rural Ethiopia whereby half of the country's regions were decentralized but not the other half. Employing a spatial regression discontinuity design, this article shows that decentralization strongly improved delivery of agricultural public services, which are of high priority to the central government. In contrast, it did not impact drinking water services, on which the central government places lower priority but citizens place high priority. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1429342025-02-24T06:48:17Z Public investment choices by local and central governments Kosec, Katrina Mogues, Tewodaj central government public investment local government agricultural extension regression analysis water supply agriculture resource allocation decentralization devolution public services drinking water This paper examines the impacts of devolving authority for public resource allocation to local governments in a setting of limited electoral control. Such a setting differs from that assumed by seminal formal models of devolution, but describes many developing countries. This study presents a formal model of this setting and tests it using unique data from a natural experiment in rural Ethiopia whereby half of the country's regions were decentralized but not the other half. Employing a spatial regression discontinuity design, this article shows that decentralization strongly improved delivery of agricultural public services, which are of high priority to the central government. In contrast, it did not impact drinking water services, on which the central government places lower priority but citizens place high priority. 2020-02-01 2024-05-22T12:11:20Z 2024-05-22T12:11:20Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142934 en https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055418000667 https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpy013 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887120000027 https://doi.org/10.2499/1037800849 Open Access Oxford University Press Kosec, Katrina; and Mogues, Tewodaj. 2020. Public investment choices by local and central governments. World Bank Economic Review 34(Supplement 1): S52-S57. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhz010 |
| spellingShingle | central government public investment local government agricultural extension regression analysis water supply agriculture resource allocation decentralization devolution public services drinking water Kosec, Katrina Mogues, Tewodaj Public investment choices by local and central governments |
| title | Public investment choices by local and central governments |
| title_full | Public investment choices by local and central governments |
| title_fullStr | Public investment choices by local and central governments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Public investment choices by local and central governments |
| title_short | Public investment choices by local and central governments |
| title_sort | public investment choices by local and central governments |
| topic | central government public investment local government agricultural extension regression analysis water supply agriculture resource allocation decentralization devolution public services drinking water |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142934 |
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