@techreport{Pitt2010Spatial,
abstract = {This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are responsive to the attributes of places and their populations, rather than to the attributes of individuals, in making allocation decisions across space, and have a social welfare function that is spatially weakly separable, that is, that the budgeting process is multi-stage with respect to administrative districts and sub-districts. The spatial instrumental variables model is then estimated and tested by GMM with a single cross-section of Indonesian census data. The results offer support to the identification strategy proposed.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Mark M. Pitt and Nidhiya Menon},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {C21; H44; O12; C50; 330; spatial decentralization, program evaluation, instrumental variables, Indonesia; Regionalpolitik; Dezentralisierung; Wirkungsanalyse; Theorie; Instrumentalvariablen-Sch\"{a}tzmethode; Sch\"{a}tzung; Indonesien},
language = {eng},
number = {5208},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Spatial decentralization and program evaluation: Theory and an example from Indonesia},
type = {Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45999},
year = {2010}
}
