Service Delivery and Corruption in Public Services: How Does History Matter?
利用印度北部村庄的微观证据，研究殖民时期的土地制度如何影响当代地方治理和教育成果，发现精英权力集中的地区至今仍由社会和经济主导阶层控制，导致公共服务更差。
This paper provides microlevel evidence of how past institutions impact present economic outcomes. It looks at the impact of colonial land tenure institutions on local governance and education outcomes in northern India. Outcomes are worse in villages that belong to areas with a history of concentration of power with the elites. Such areas continue to retain a greater political presence of socially and economically dominant classes. Future research should examine the success of policies that attempt to break such persistence through empowerment of nonelite groups.