The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Infant Mortality in Brazil

"The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Child Mortality in Brazil" is featured in a special issue of World Development that examines how decentralization affects governance, in particular how it might increase political competition, improve public accountability, reduce political instability, and impose incentive-compatible limits on government power, but also threaten fiscal sustainability.