| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24879 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24879 |
| Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay | |
| Ernesto Dal Bó; Frederico Finan; Nicholas Y. Li; Laura Schechter | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-08-06 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Standard models of hierarchy assume that agents and middle managers are better informed than principals about how to implement a particular task. We estimate the value of the informational advantage held by supervisors – middle managers – when ministerial leadership – the principal – introduced a new monitoring technology aimed at improving the performance of agricultural extension agents (AEAs) in rural Paraguay. Our approach employs a novel experimental design that elicited treatment-priority rankings from supervisors before randomization of treatment. We find that supervisors did have valuable information—they prioritized AEAs who would be more responsive to the monitoring treatment. We develop a model of monitoring under different allocation rules and roll-out scales (i.e., the share of AEAs to receive treatment). We semi-parametrically estimate marginal treatment effects (MTEs) to demonstrate that the value of information and the benefits to decentralizing treatment decisions depend crucially on the sophistication of the principal and on the scale of roll-out. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Economics of Information ; Public Economics ; Public Goods ; Labor Economics ; Labor Market Structures ; Development and Growth ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Renewable Resources |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24879 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582553 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ernesto Dal Bó,Frederico Finan,Nicholas Y. Li,et al. Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay. 2018. |
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