Public investment choices by local and central governments

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dc.creatorKosec, Katrina
dc.creatorMogues, Tewodaj
dc.date2020-02-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:11:20Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:11:20Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:56:24Z
dc.descriptionThis 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.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142934
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/90012
dc.languageen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055418000667
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpy013
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887120000027
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/1037800849
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceKosec, 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
dc.subjectcentral government
dc.subjectpublic investment
dc.subjectlocal government
dc.subjectagricultural extension
dc.subjectregression analysis
dc.subjectwater supply
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectresource allocation
dc.subjectdecentralization
dc.subjectdevolution
dc.subjectpublic services
dc.subjectdrinking water
dc.titlePublic investment choices by local and central governments
dc.typeJournal Article

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