The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralisation and Human Development
利用印度各邦行政分权改革的时间差异，研究将公共服务责任从邦下放到地方政府对人类发展的影响，发现分权并未改善儿童死亡率或学业完成率，且部分分权反而显著恶化了新生儿和儿童死亡率。
Abstract We examine the human development consequences of transferring responsibility for public service provision from state to local governments in India using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralisation reforms. We find that devolving responsibility for health and education functions does not improve child mortality or school completion. Further, partial devolution of service responsibility, without concomitant authority over personnel or taxation, results in a significant worsening of neonatal, infant and under-5 child mortality. Our results cannot be attributed to differential pre-trends, omitted variables bias, or heterogeneous treatment effects.