IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17308

Targeting and Effectiveness of Location-Based Policies

Vincenzo Carrieri, G. de Blasio, Antonella Rita Ferrara, Rosanna Nisticò

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17053

The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralization and Human Development

Latika Chaudhary, Lakshmi Iyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15570

Is Secessionism Mostly about Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño Ortín, Ömer Özak

published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (668), 1261–1299

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14369

The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks

Ines Helm, Jan Stuhler

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 2024, 16 (4), 484–527

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14263

Out of Communal Land: Clientelism through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Contracts

Takashi Kurosaki, Saumik Paul, Firman Witoelar

published as 'In pursuit of power: Land tenancy contracts and local political business cycles in Indonesia' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 227, 106764

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13597

Access to Land and Tenancy Practices on Tanah Bengkok: Evidence from Java, Indonesia

Takashi Kurosaki, Saumik Paul, Firman Witoelar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13148

Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico

Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Kiyomi Cadena, Laura Moreno Herrera

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12696

Passports for Sale: The Political Economy of Conflict and Cooperation in a Meta-Club

Kai A. Konrad, Ray Rees

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 62, 101855

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11364

Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?

Tjaša Bjedov, Simon Lapointe, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 51 (4), 681-716

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11148

Taxation, Social Protection, and Governance Decentralization

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published as 'Taxation and social protection under governance decentralisation' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 60, 101743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9641

Leader Networks and Transaction Costs: A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting

Nancy H. Chau, Yu Qin, Weiwen Zhang

published as 'Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas' in: Land Economics, 2024, 100 (3), 568-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9113

Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation during the U.S. Welfare Reform

Andreas Bernecker, Pierre C. Boyer, Christina Gathmann

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (2), 26-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8498

Happy Voters

Federica Liberini, Michela Redoano, Eugenio Proto

revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 41-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7831

Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Daniel L. Millimet

published in: Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2014, 64 (4), 1669-1757

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6952

Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design

Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini, Ugo Troiano

published as 'Do Fiscal Rules Matter?' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (3), 1-30

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. 6712

Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?

Riemer Faber, Pierre Koning

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (1), 60 - 95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5698

Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil

Fernanda Brollo, Tommaso Nannicini

published in: American Political Science Review, 2012, 106 (4), 742-761

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