Listar6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica por tema "Gobernabilidad"
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Bureaucratic turnover across levels of government
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-11-19)The incidence of patronage can vary widely across levels of gov ernment within a country. We show this in the context of Brazil, which has been the focus of most recent research on patronage. In particular, we find that ... -
Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits
(2024-07)Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting ... -
Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from a Constitutional Reform in Brazil
(2024-09-26)There is surprisingly scarce evidence regarding the extent to which and how government health expenditure affects health outcomes. Exploiting variation generated by Brazil’s 29th Constitutional Amendment, which mandated ... -
Embracing modernity pays: Cadastre modernization effects on local property tax collection
(2024-09-26)This paper investigates the impact of the Mexican cadastre modernization program on local property tax revenue. We evaluate a comprehensive modernization initiative, which began in 2010 and included guidelines, technical ... -
Estructura tributaria y evasión impositiva en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)Este informe estudia la evolución y las características del nivel y la estructura de la carga tributaria promedio en la región a través de los últimos veinte años, buscando identificar las diferencias relevantes entre ... -
Gobierno electrónico y capacidades estatales en América Latina y el Caribe. Estudio exploratorio en centros urbanos y agencias tributarias nacionales
(CAF, 2014-09-13)El trabajo tiene como finalidad identificar las herramientas con las que cuentan las administraciones gubernamentales de América Latina en materia de gobierno electrónico, a través del relevamiento de variables que dan ... -
Government performance, taxation and citizen participation: evidence from Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)Fiscal contract theories of the state hypothesize that government performance affects tax collection and that institutions that foster representation and accountability link taxes and services. These propositions have yet ... -
Government transparency and political clientelism: Evidence from randomized anti-corruption audits in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-01-31)Political clientelism is considered a fundamental reason why politicians are not accountable and responsive to their constituencies. In this working paper, we study whether transparency initiatives – more specifically, ... -
Inter-jurisdictional coordination in the management of natural resources: evidence from water basin committees in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Decentralized management of public goods creates the potential for spillovers across jurisdictions. These spillovers may be particularly large in the case of river management where the river has little value to upstream ... -
Internal Control as State Capacity
(2024-09-26)While previous research has thoroughly examined the consequences of external control on subnational governments, less is known about the drivers and consequences of internal control. This paper presents a series of findings ... -
La importancia del servicio civil en el desarrollo de capacidades estatales en América Latina
(CAF, 2015-07)El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el vínculo entre el Servicio Civil y la capacidad del sector público de implementar políticas. Para ello, examina la relación del Servicio Civil con (1) la institucionalidad formal ... -
Local governments' capacity and performance: evidence from peruvian municipalities
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)This paper explores the extent of technical capacity constraints in Peruvian local governments. To do that, we study how effective municipalities are in using a significant income windfall due to central government transfers ... -
My (Running) Mate, the Mayor: Political Ties and Access to Public Jobs in Ecuador
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-01-17)We show that local politicians’ probability of being employed by a municipality increases when they have a strong party connection to its mayor. Using a regression discontinuity design, we compare the employment outcomes ... -
Political Alignment and Inter-jurisdictional Cooperation in a Fragmented Political Landscape: Evidence from Mexico
(2024-09-26)We investigate the relationship between neighboring municipal authorities’ shared party affiliation and inter-jurisdictional cooperation agreements in Mexico. Exploiting a Regression Discontinuity Design in close municipal ... -
Reciprocity and willingness to pay taxes: evidence from a survey experiment in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)We provide the first experimental attempt at measuring reciprocity in tax collection in developing countries, where enforcement institutions are weak, and where tax rates and in general tax observance is lower. In a household ... -
El tamaño importa: la estructura vertical de gobierno y la gestión del gasto público local
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)Una gran cantidad de países alrededor del mundo presentan estructuras verticales de gobierno percibidas como ineficientes debido a un alto nivel de fragmentación jurisdiccional. La respuesta común a este diagnostico ha ... -
The Anatomy of Colombian Bureaucratic Hierarchies
(2024-07-26)The effective deployment of the bureaucracy is fundamental to government performance and economic development. We study the organizational architecture of the central administration for a large sample of municipal governments ... -
The pillars of fiscal decentralization
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)Fiscal decentralization can de be defined as the process of transferring budgetary authority from central government to elected subnational governments in order to grant them power to make decisions regarding taxes and ... -
The political economy of budgeting in Latin America procedures, oversight, and participation
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)This report provides a selective overview of issues pertaining to the budgetary process and a mapping out of budgetary institutions in Latin America and assesses to what extent budgets play the role societies expect from ...
