Do Perceptions Match Provision? Investigating the Gap between Levels of Service Provision and Citizen Perceptions in Sub-Saharan Africa

• In Event: The Politics of Local Public Goods in Africa

Brief Overview

We propose a new measure that quantifies the difference between objective levels of service provision and subjective evaluations of those services. Using a finite mixture model, we test three competing theories of this divergence.

Authors

• Paige Bollen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Blair Read, Massachusetts Institute of Technology