This paper evaluates the effect of natural resource revenue on expenditure efficiency. Using a panel of Colombian municipalities over 2003–2011, we use a two‐step procedure to estimate the effect of natural resource revenue on municipal efficiency. First, the technical efficiency of local governments is calculated through a robust non‐parametric method. These estimates are then used in a second step to evaluate how the local government's efficiency varies with exogenous variation in royalties. Our findings indicate that royalties reduce efficiency in the provision of education and health care services, providing evidence of one of the mechanisms explaining the natural resource curse.

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自然资源诅咒：来自哥伦比亚各市的证据

本文评估了自然资源收入对支出效率的影响。我们使用2003-2011年哥伦比亚市政府的专家小组，采用两步法估算自然资源收入对市政效率的影响。首先，地方政府的技术效率是通过可靠的非参数方法来计算的。然后，将这些估算值用于第二步，以评估当地政府的效率如何随着特许权使用费的外生变化而变化。我们的研究结果表明，特许权使用费降低了提供教育和保健服务的效率，提供了解释自然资源诅咒的机制之一的证据。