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The IZA Discussion Paper Series (ISSN: 2365-9793) disseminates high-quality research by IZA network members to the scientific community and the interested public worldwide before they are later published in academic journals. Comprising more than 17,000 papers, IZA's publication flagship is the most influential working paper series in labor economics.

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36 IZA Discussion Papers
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. 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. 6185
Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Eric A. Hanushek, Susanne Link, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 104, 212-232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6176
Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining
Christian M. Dahl, Daniel le Maire, Jakob R. Munch
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 501-533
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5382
Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
Alain de Janvry, Frederico S. Finan, Elisabeth Sadoulet
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (3), 672 - 685
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5286
Fiscal Decentralization and Development: How Crucial is Local Politics?
Sarmistha Pal, Jaideep Roy
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5281
Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure: Evidence from a Decentralised Economy
Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5208
Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation: Theory and an Example from Indonesia
Mark M. Pitt, Nidhiya Menon
published as 'Spatial Decentralization and Programme Evaluation: Theory and an Example' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81 (3), 511 - 539
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4574
The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties
George W. Hammond, Mehmet S. Tosun
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2010, 20 (10), 1-18
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4259
Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis
Axel Dreher, Justina A.V. Fischer
published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51 (4), 981 - 1002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3585
Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89(1), 12-18
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2626
Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De)Centralization and Welfare
Calin Arcalean, Gerhard Glomm, Ioana Schiopu, Jens Suedekum
published in:Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2010, 43 (3), 832-859
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2477
Decentralization and the Productive Efficiency of Government: Evidence from Swiss Cantons
Iwan Barankay, Ben Lockwood
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1197-1218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2000
The (Parlous) State of German Unions
John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2007, 28 (1), 3-18
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1298
Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract
Andreas Roider
revised version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2006, 162(3), 391-411
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