IZA Discussion Papers

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

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, Available online 17 October 2018
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0176268017303142

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9641

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

Nancy H. Chau, Yu Qin, Weiwen Zhang

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 forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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", Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space 37(7), 1296-1316

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6712

Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?

Riemer Faber, Pierre Koning

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5286