This study examines the causal effect of asymmetric fiscal decentralization on education and
health outcomes in Papua Province, Indonesia, from 1994 to 2016, using the Synthetic …

We review empirical evidence on the ability of decentralization to enhance preference
matching and technical efficiency in the provision of health and education in developing …

Despite financial and decision-making responsibilities having been increasingly devolved to
lower levels of government worldwide, the potential impact of these reforms remains largely …

This study analyzes the effect of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes in China using a
panel data set with nationwide county-level fiscal data. We find that more fiscally …

In this study, the interrelationship between income inequality, fiscal decentralization, and
public health is investigated within a comprehensive research framework for the first time …

Background Governance, particularly 'good governance'is an important determinant of
economic growth, social advancement, and overall development, including the eight …

While many countries worldwide are shifting responsibilities for their health systems to local
levels of government, there is to date insufficient evidence about the potential impact of …

Does health expenditure decentralization improve a nation's health? Should countries care
about governance quality when they decentralize healthcare spending to local …

This article contributes to the limited empirical literature on the impact of decentralization on
economic welfare by investigating the hypothesis that shifts towards more fiscal …

This study re-examines the hypothesis that shifts towards more decentralization would be
accompanied by improvements in population health on a panel of 20 OECD countries over a …