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Should Welfare Administration be Centralized or Decentralized? : Evidence from a Policy Experiment

Boockmann, Bernhard ; Thomson, Stephan L. ; Walter, Thomas ; Göbel, Christian ; Huber, Martin

In: German economic review, 2013, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 13-42

The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central directives. At the same time, 69 districts were allowed to opt for a decentralized organization. We evaluate the relative success of both types in terms of...