Do More Decentralized Local Governments do Better? An Evaluation of the 2001 Decentralization Reform in Colombia

Cortés, Darwin

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“…In sum, it is hard to predict the decentralization outcomes of a reform like the Colombian one, taking the Argentinian experience as a reference. Close in terms of context studied is the working paper by Cortés (2010), who also focuses on the 2001…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In fact, a previously circulated version of this paper 11 used RD as its main identification approach and obtained results that are qualitatively and quantitatively analogous to the ones presented here. Nevertheless, the number of cities that acquired autonomy is small, and even fewer of them are close to the auton- Cortés (2010). Further, the low number of cities close to the policy threshold forces the researcher to include into the analysis cities that are quite different in size.…”

Section: The Population Threshold and Why Not An Rd Analysismentioning

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Cities drifting apart: Heterogeneous outcomes of decentralizing public education

Brutti

2020

IZA Journal of Labor Economics

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Looking at the decentralized provision of public education in a middle-income country, this paper estimates the impact of local autonomy on service quality, finding large heterogeneity in the effect across different levels of local development. In the year 2002, Colombian municipalities were entrusted with autonomous management of their local public education based solely on a population threshold. I estimate the impact that autonomy has had on education performance across the territory, using a municipality and time fixed-effects model. I find a quality gap arising between highly developed and low-developed autonomous municipalities, in a trend that reinforces over time: the reform has induced regional inequality in education quality. I am able to support the hypothesis that autonomous and nonautonomous municipalities were on similar performance trends before decentralization was implemented, even when looking within different local development ranges. Based on the analysis of detailed municipal balance sheet data and administration indicators, I argue that local administration capacity represents the most likely explanation of why the autonomy-related discrepancies have been arising.

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Cities drifting apart: Heterogeneous outcomes of decentralizing public education

Brutti

2020

IZA Journal of Labor Economics

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“…Encontró que la descentralización no ha tenido gran influencia en las tasas de cobertura. Cortés (2010) se preguntó si la reforma de descentralización de 2001 aumentó la inscripción en las escuelas preuniversitarias de los municipios más descentralizados y encontró que esos municipios podían subsidiar una mayor cantidad de estudiantes en escuelas privadas, particularmente en primaria y básica secundaria. Faguet y Sánchez (2014) encontraron que las políticas de descentralización fiscal y administrativa aumentan la matrícula escolar en el sector oficial y que existe un efecto de complementariedad entre escuelas públicas y privadas.…”

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Política de descentralización y sector educativo en el departamento del Huila

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Chavarro

2021

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Este articulo analiza el impacto de la politica de descentralizacion en el sector educativo del departamento del Huila. Usa datos de panel sobre descentralización fiscal, administrativa y politica, asi como de cobertura educativa y calidad educativa de todos sus municipios en el periodo 2005-2015. Los resultados muestran que la cobertura educativa tiene una relación positiva con la descentralización administrativa, y que la descentralización fiscal, administrativa y politica contribuye a mejorar la calidad de la educacion municipal.

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“…7 Educational outcomes of the 2001 reform are explored in the descriptive Colombian central bank report by Lonzano et al [2007], who conclude that the post-reform years have witnessed progress in attendance rates but disappointing results in terms of quality and efficiency. Also Cortés [2010] focuses on the 2001 reform, uses enrollment data up to 2006 and compares municipalities who gained education autonomy to the remaining, finding that the…”

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Cities Drifting Apart: Heterogeneous Outcomes of Decentralizing Public Education

Brutti

2016

SSRN Journal

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The IEB research program in Fiscal Federalism aims at promoting research in the public finance issues that arise in decentralized countries. Special emphasis is put on applied research and on work that tries to shed light on policy-design issues. Research that is particularly policy-relevant from a Spanish perspective is given special consideration. Disseminating research findings to a broader audience is also an aim of the program. The program enjoys the support from the IEB-Foundation and the IEB-UB Chair in Fiscal Federalism funded by Fundación ICO, Instituto de Estudios Fiscales and Institut d'Estudis Autonòmics. The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) is a research centre at the University of Barcelona (UB) which specializes in the field of applied economics. The IEB is a foundation funded by the following institutions: Applus, Abertis,

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Do More Decentralized Local Governments do Better? An Evaluation of the 2001 Decentralization Reform in Colombia

Cited by 7 publications

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Cities drifting apart: Heterogeneous outcomes of decentralizing public education

Cities drifting apart: Heterogeneous outcomes of decentralizing public education

Política de descentralización y sector educativo en el departamento del Huila

Cities Drifting Apart: Heterogeneous Outcomes of Decentralizing Public Education

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