Documenting Decentralization: Empirical Evidence on Administrative Unit Proliferation from Uganda

doi:10.1093/wber/lhae008

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Documenting Decentralization: Empirical Evidence on Administrative Unit Proliferation from Uganda

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dc.contributor.author	Cohen, Isabelle
dc.date.accessioned	2024-11-14T19:55:54Z
dc.date.available	2024-11-14T19:55:54Z
dc.date.issued	2024-03-09
dc.description.abstract	Decentralization is an important and commonplace type of reform, yet our understanding of its effects remains limited. This paper documents the effects of the 2009-10 wave of district creation in Uganda, which increased the country’s districts by 42 percent, using rich data on subdistrict units to assess the effects of district creation on a broad range of post-decentralization outcomes in a difference-in-differences framework. The effects of decentralization are concentrated in newly split off, rather than split from, districts and are heterogeneous across outcome types. Newly split-off districts have more per capita frontline workers but appear to have worse quality infrastructure and lower economic development. The study also presents suggestive evidence that administrative capacity decreases for newly formed districts post-split. These findings demonstrate the importance of considering a broad range of outcomes when thinking about decentralization	en
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dc.identifier.citation	World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/42415
dc.identifier.issn	0258-6770
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dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
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dc.subject	DECENTRALIZATION
dc.subject	ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY
dc.subject	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.title	Documenting Decentralization	en
dc.title.subtitle	Empirical Evidence on Administrative Unit Proliferation from Uganda	en
dc.type	Journal Article
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okr.crossref.title	Documenting Decentralization: Empirical Evidence on Administrative Unit Proliferation from Uganda
okr.date.disclosure	2024-11-14
okr.date.lastmodified	2024-10-30T00:00:00Z	en
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okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.administrative	Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
okr.region.country	Uganda
okr.topic	Public Sector Development::Decentralization
okr.unit	Off of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume	38(4)
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