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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Public Goods Provision"”.
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Immigrant inflows and public goods provision
… with a central theme on Hispanic inflows and public goods provision. The first paper investigates how Hispanic immigrant inflows affect K-12 public education finance in the US. I first document the long-run trend of mean household income and average number of children per household for …
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Post-Soviet ethnic politics and public goods provision
What explains the pattern of public goods distribution across ethnic groups in the states of the former Soviet Union? In this dissertation, I seek to demonstrate how the unique pattern of nation-state formation in the former Soviet states interacts with other institutional legacies in a manner that …
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Essays on Ethnic Party Competition and Public Goods Provision in South Asia
… ethnic voting than economic incentives like public goods or economic clientelism. Economic patronage is found to be only relevant in peaceful societies with little modern history of ethnic violence, and towards building cross-cutting ethnic coalitions. The findings are moderated by ethnic …
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Essays on Leadership Selection and Public Goods Provision in Self-Help Organizations
… relationship between leadership selection and public goods provision in self-help organizations. Leadership selection is defined as the rules for selecting leaders, as well as the factors that determine the quality of the leadership class. Self-help organizations are defined as relatively …
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Connecting the Nodes. How Social Capital Enhances Local Public Goods' Provision in Shantytowns.
… covered the direct exchange of private goods for political support between voters and politicians. Yet, patronage does not end with the distribution of food, medicine or public employment. In poor informal settlements, access to a sanitation system or clean drinking water is often …
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Impact of Natural Disaster Exposure on Prosocial Preferences and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from the Solomon Islands
… as well as create a shift in investments from public to private goods. Both are important mechanisms to study in order to create optimal climate change adaptation policies. This study evaluates the impact of natural disaster exposure on prosocial preferences and public goods provision in the …
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Three essays on local government performance and political institutions in Colombia
… and their citizens, and to ensure increases in public goods provision. Although some countries successfully granted administrative and fiscal autonomy to subnational governments, political autonomy, especially competitive elections of mayors and councils, remains a major challenge, particularly …
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Essays On Local Governance In India
… of their vertical and horizontal structures on public goods provision in India. The first chapter focuses on political representation and the vertical structure of decentralized governments. Political decentralization combined with minority representation has been purported to give power to the …
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Does decentralization work? An assessment of the causes and consequences of subnational fragmentation in Brazil
… political participation in local elections and public goods provision. Using archival research conducted in the Legislative Assembly of the most municipality-dense Brazilian state, Minas Gerais, and fragmentation plebiscite results, I empirically assess the motivations underlying local leaders’ …
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Reciprocity and Prejudice: An Experiment of Hindu-Muslim Cooperation in the Slums of Mumbai
… what conditions ethnic differences undermine public goods provision and exacerbate ethnic discrimination. It posits that people cooperate more with and discriminate less against the groups expected to reciprocate cooperative behavior. Conditional cooperators rationally update their group …
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Essays in public economics and political economy
This thesis studies topics in public economics in developed and developing countries, including health insurance regulation, public goods provision and inequality and welfare measurement. The first chapter analyzes the impacts of the managed care backlash in the United States on health care costs …
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Essays on Public Economics
This dissertation gathers three essays on public economics. The first chapter studies the effects of local income taxation on tax base and individual mobility since the early 2000s in Italy. I combine novel fine-grained data on the universe of tax residence’s transfers with 89,860 local income tax …
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SOCIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF TAX EVASION: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE ITALIAN CASE
… in ensuring sufficient tax payments to finance public goods? In this sit uation, individual decision-making is probably affected by factors beyond any material cost-benefit considerations, such as cultural, institutional, social, and normative influences. This doctoral thesis aimed to …
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Information and environmental policy
… of heterogeneous green preferences for private provision of environmental public goods in an asymmetric information context. Under varying degrees of information available to a regulator, I characterize equilibrium properties of several mechanisms. I find incentive compatible Nash equilibria …
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Three Essays on the Land Property Rights Reform in China
… reform in rural China after 1978 on cultural public goods provision. A staggered difference-in-differences model that analyzes the timing of reform implementation in 1,114 counties finds that the reform resulted in a surge in the number of newly constructed religious sites. Further evidence …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… economic informality, political behavior, and public goods provision. In three papers, it explores how seemingly nonpolitical everyday social institutions and collective action rooted in economic informality help extend the reach of the state and advance public policies in developing societies. …
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Essays in Empirical Development Economics
… which ended the Bosnian War on the post-war provision of public goods at the municipality-level. Comparing trends in the provision of public schooling across partitioned and unpartitioned municipalities during the 1986-2006 period, I find that partitioned municipalities provide 58 percent …
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Information and Incentives in Online Platforms
… are not known. This may arise in games of local public goods provision or firm competition. We show that the combination of best response and learning dynamics converges to the Nash equilibrium. In the second part of the thesis, Chapter 4, we study the problem of sharing information in traffic …
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Health and Environmental Benefits of Reduced Pesticide Use in Uganda: An Experimental Economics Analysis
… and (iii) the classical tendency to free-ride in public goods provision was observed, and this phenomenon was more pronounced in the urban than the rural area. The second experimental procedure involved 132 urban respondents making repeated choices from a set of scenarios described by attributes …
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Explaining cohesion, fragmentation, and control in insurgent groups
… more important than mass political popularity, public goods provision, or ideology in providing the basis for enduring organizational cohesion. Organizations built around coalitions of localized pockets of collective action or leaders operating among populations with whom they lack social ties …
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