Local electoral incentives and decentralized program performance

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 672-685

  de Janvry, Alain ^a   Finan, Frederico ^b   Sadoulet, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BREAD IZA and NBER ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84874352615     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00182     Document Type: Article

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