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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Main Authors:	Kosec, Katrina, Mogues, Tewodaj
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
Subjects:	PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE WATER SUPPLY REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DRINKING WATER AGRICULTURE
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36147

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spelling	okr-10986-361472021-08-18T05:10:30Z Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments Kosec, Katrina Mogues, Tewodaj PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE WATER SUPPLY REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DRINKING WATER AGRICULTURE 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. 2021-08-17T15:06:00Z 2021-08-17T15:06:00Z 2020-02 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36147 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Ethiopia
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topic	PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE WATER SUPPLY REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DRINKING WATER AGRICULTURE
spellingShingle	PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE WATER SUPPLY REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY DRINKING WATER AGRICULTURE Kosec, Katrina Mogues, Tewodaj Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments
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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.
format	Journal Article
author	Kosec, Katrina Mogues, Tewodaj
author_facet	Kosec, Katrina Mogues, Tewodaj
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title	Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments
title_short	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
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publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36147
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Public Investment Choices by Local and Central Governments

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