Cohen Evaluates Post-Decentralization Effects in Uganda
Posted: 3/13/2024 (CSDE Research)
CSDE Affiliate Isabelle Cohen (Public Policy & Governance) authored a new study in The World Bank Economic Review, titled “Documenting Decentralization: Empirical Evidence on Administrative Unit Proliferation from Uganda“. Decentralization is an important and commonplace type of reform, yet our understanding of its effects remains limited. This paper documents the effects of the 2009–10 wave of district creation in Uganda, which increased the country’s districts by 42 percent, using rich data on subdistrict units to assess the effects of district creation on a broad range of post-decentralization outcomes in a difference-in-differences framework.