TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Janvry,Alain
AU  - Finan,Frederico
AU  - Sadoulet,Elisabeth
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - December 2010; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8 percentage points, the program's impact was 36 percent larger in municipalities governed by mayors who faced reelection possibilities compared to those with lame-duck mayors. First term mayors with good program performance were much more likely to get re-elected. These mayors adopted program implementation practices that were not only more transparent but also associated with better program outcomes
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w16635
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w16635
ER  -