dc.contributor |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
dc.contributor.author |
Díaz Serrano, Lluís |
dc.contributor.author |
Meix Llop, Enric |
dc.date.accessioned |
2019-03-14T17:09:32Z |
dc.date.available |
2019-03-14T17:09:32Z |
dc.date.created |
2018 |
dc.date.issued |
2018 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2072/351581 |
dc.format.extent |
35 p. |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.publisher |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2018-26 |
dc.rights |
L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
dc.source |
RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) |
dc.subject.other |
Serveis públics |
dc.subject.other |
Finances autonòmiques |
dc.subject.other |
Descentralització administrativa |
dc.subject.other |
Rendiment escolar |
dc.title |
Decentralization and the Quality of Public Services: Cross-Country Evidence from Educational Data |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |
dc.subject.udc |
33 - Economia |
dc.subject.udc |
37 - Educació. Ensenyament. Formació. Temps lliure |
dc.embargo.terms |
cap |
dc.rights.accessLevel |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.description.abstract |
In this paper, we study the impact of fiscal and political decentralization on the quality
of public service delivery. While the effect of fiscal decentralization on public services is
a recursive theme, to the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to investigate the
impact of political decentralization. We use educational data as a proxy for the quality of
public services. We use microdata from the PISA test scores from 22 countries and test
for the impact of fiscal and political decentralization on students’ performance. We use
not only general measures of decentralization but, for the first time, also educationspecific decentralization measures. Our results indicate that the impact of fiscal
decentralization on school outcomes is positive. However, the results regarding political
decentralization are more ambiguous. We also observe that the scalar effect of both
political and economic decentralization becomes more evident in large cities.
Keywords: Public services, School outcomes, PISA, fiscal decentralization, political
decentralization |