Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay

Bó, Ernesto Dal; Finan, Frederico; Li, Nicholas Y.; Schechter, Laura

doi:10.3386/w24879

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“…7 Several studies consider different methods to improve the provision of extension services. For instance, cell-phone-based monitoring of extension workers can help solve agency problems and increase the number of farmers reached (Dal B ó et al, 2020). Alternatively, researchers have considered efforts to better select, incentivize, and train the farmers that the extension service partners with (Beaman et al, 2020;BenYishay and Mobarak, 2018;Kondylis, Mueller, and Zhu, 2017;Beaman and Dillon, 2018;BenYishay et al, 2020).…”

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Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture

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de Janvry,

Emerick

et al. 2024

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Information frictions limit the adoption of new agricultural technologies in developing countries. Efforts to improve learning involve spreading information from government agents to farmers. We show that when compared to this government approach, informing private input suppliers in India about a new seed variety increases farmer-level adoption by over 50 percent. Suppliers become more proactive in informing potential customers and carrying the new variety. They induce increased adoption by those with higher returns from the technology. Being motivated by expanded sales offers the most likely motive for these results. (JEL D83, L14, L33, O13, O32, Q12, Q16)

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Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture

Dar,

de Janvry,

Emerick

et al. 2024

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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“…I contribute to the literature on enforcement and the incentives of local bureaucrats (Balán, Bergeron, Tourek, & Weigel, 2022;Amodio, Choi, De Giorgi, & Rahman, 2021;Khan, Khwaja, & Olken, 2016), and the use of technology to improve monitoring (Callen, Gulzar, Hasanain, Khan, & Rezaee, 2018;Dal B ó, Finan, Li, & Schechter, 2018;Dhaliwal & Hanna, 2017;de Rochambeau, 2020). The answer to the existence of spillover effects speaks directly to the important question of "How much do improvements in enforcement generate displacement in wrongdoing?"…”

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The response of illegal mining to revealing its existence

Saavedra

2021

SSRN Journal

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Citizen engagement in public services in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A mixed‐methods systematic review of participation, inclusion, transparency and accountability (PITA) initiatives

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Sonnenfeld

Finetti

et al. 2019

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Background: How do governance interventions that engage citizens in public service delivery planning, management and oversight impact the quality of and access to services and citizens' quality of life? This systematic review examined high quality evidence from 35 citizen engagement programmes in low-and middle-income countries that promote the engagement of citizens in service delivery through four routes: participation (participatory priority setting); inclusion of marginalised groups; transparency (information on rights and public service performance), and/or citizen efforts to ensure public service accountability (citizen feedback and monitoring); collectively, PITA mechanisms. We collected quantitative and qualitative data from the included studies and used statistical meta-analysis and realist-informed framework synthesis to analyse the findings.Results: The findings suggest that interventions promoting citizen engagement by improving direct engagement between service users and service providers, are often effective in stimulating active citizen engagement in service delivery and realising improvements in access to services and quality of service provision, particularly for services that involve direct interaction between citizens and providers. However, in the absence of complementary interventions to address bottlenecks around service provider supply chains and service use, citizen engagement interventions alone may not improve key wellbeing outcomes for target communities or state-society relations. In addition, interventions promoting citizen engagement by increasing citizen pressures on politicians to hold providers to account, are not usually able to influence service delivery. Conclusions:The citizen engagement interventions studied were more likely to be successful: (1) where the programme targeted a service that citizens access directly from front-line staff, such as healthcare, as opposed to services accessed independently of service provider staff, such as roads; (2) where implementers were able to generate active support and buy-in for the intervention from both citizens and front-line public ---

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Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture

Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture

The response of illegal mining to revealing its existence

Citizen engagement in public services in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A mixed‐methods systematic review of participation, inclusion, transparency and accountability (PITA) initiatives

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