The Anatomy of Colombian Bureaucratic Hierarchies

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dc.contributor.authorMartínez, Luis
dc.contributor.authorSnowberg, Erik
dc.contributor.authorTing, Michael
dc.coverage.spatialAmérica Latina y el Caribees_ES
dc.coverage.spatialColombiaes_ES
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-27T20:34:45Z
dc.date.available2024-09-27T20:34:45Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-26
dc.description.tableofcontentsThe effective deployment of the bureaucracy is fundamental to government performance and economic development. We study the organizational architecture of the central administration for a large sample of municipal governments in Colombia. Our analysis yields four main findings. First, municipal population is the strongest predictor of the size of the local bureaucracy, but there is substantial variation in bureaucratic size even among municipalities with similar population or expenditure on public personnel. Second, while almost all municipal governments have employees at all hierarchical levels, the share of top managers monotonically decreases and the shares corresponding to lower layers grow as bureaucracies expand. However, only the largest bureaucracies achieve a pyramidal structure. Third, average wages monotonically increase with the hierarchical level, but they remain largely constant within levels for bureaucracies of different sizes. Fourth, larger shares of higher-level bureaucrats are robustly associated with municipal tax revenue per capita, conditional on bureaucratic sizees_ES
dc.identifier.citationMartínez, L., Snowberg, E., & Ting, M. (2024, July 26). The Anatomy of Colombian Bureaucratic Hierarchies. Retrieved from https://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/2296en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/2296
dc.language.isoenes_ES
dc.subjectDesarrolloes_ES
dc.subjectGobernabilidades_ES
dc.titleThe Anatomy of Colombian Bureaucratic Hierarchieses_ES
dc.typeArticlees_ES

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