Sticky decentralization? Evidence from the French school reform

Aurélie Cassette and Etienne Farvaque

Economics Working Paper from Condorcet Center for political Economy at CREM-CNRS from Condorcet Center for political Economy

Abstract: This paper studies the determinants of the decision for local politicians to go back from a nationally-defined but locally-enforced policy. Once implemented locally, does a reform sticks, or is it washed away as soon as can be? We use the quasi-natural experiment of the changes in the school week schedule in France to provide an answer to this question. Our results are based on a unique, detailed, database of local schoolweek schedules. They indicate that, even though the decentralized policy aims at improving welfare, the costs generated by the reform, as well as local preferences, determines the degree of stickiness of the reform.

Keywords: Decentralization; Reforms; Municipalities; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 H70 H73 I29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-09
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