The workshop aims at exploring both the interactions between education and health as well as issues related to the impact of shocks (broadly defined) on the provision of education and health care. We invite researchers working on these or on closely related topics to submit their manuscripts. We...

The Workshop will run in parallel to the “27th Meeting of Public Economics”. We aim to bring together relevant research work in the field of public policies, using micro data. Contributed papers topics may focus on any of the following main areas of research: Taxation; Education; Health;...

Program: - “Too Crooked to be Good: Tradeoffs and the Punishment of Malfeasance”, Sofia Breitenstein & Enrique Hernández; - “Social Capital, Corruption and Accountability. Evidence from the Spanish municipalities”, Jordi Muñoz & Pilar Sorribas-Navarro; - “The Fingerprints of Fraud:...

The recent economic crisis has posed important challenges to the political institutions and public finances of developed and developing countries. These challenges have motivated scholars to study both the political determinants and consequences of these recent events. The aim of this workshop...