TY  - BOOK
AU  - Narasimhan, Veda
AU  -  Weaver, Jeffrey
TI  - Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India
SN  - 0002-8282
PB  - American Economic Review
KW  -  Infrastructure
KW  -  Institutional Arrangements
KW  -  Political Processes
KW  -  Public Pensions
KW  -  Transportation Analysis
KW  - Economic Development
N2  - Developing countries have increasingly decentralized power to local governments. This paper studies the implications of a central element of decentralization (polity size) using population-based discontinuities that determine local government boundaries f
UR  - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20221712
ER  -