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100			_aLuis Diaz-Serrano, _946518
245			_aDecentralization and the quality of public services: Cross-country evidence from educational data
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 37, Issue 7, 2019 ( 1296-1316 p.)
520			_aIn 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 Programme for International Student Assessment (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 education-specific 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.
650			_aPublic services, _946519
650			_aschool outcomes, _946520
650			_aProgramme for International Student Assessment, _946521
650			_a fiscal decentralization, _934280
650			_aPolitical decentralization _946522
700			_aMeix-Llop, Enric _946523
773	0		_08872 _915873 _dLondon Pion Ltd. 2010 _tEnvironment and planning C: _x1472-3425
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2399654418824602
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