Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Girardi, Daniele - 2019 - This draft: April 19, 2019
We study the role of political parties in shaping local fiscal policy in the context of Brazilian cities in the 2004-2016 period. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we find no effect of left-wing mayors on the size of the city government nor on the allocation of spending across main budget...