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A fresh look at fiscal redistribution and inequality in the US across electoral cycles

Sala, Hector - 2018

The evolution of the ratio of direct taxation (characterized by progressive rates) over indirect and payroll taxation (characterized by flat rates) is examined together with its distributional consequences for the Bottom 50%, Middle 40% and Top 10% shares of income. Oscillations of this ratio...

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Politics before pupils? : electoral cycles and school resources in India

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - 2014

Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel data across Indian states, we test for electoral cycles in...

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Local political budget cycles in a federation : evidence from West German cities

Furdas, Marina; Homolkova, Katerina; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2015

This paper analyzes the occurrence of political budget cycles in 604 West German cities between 1975 and 2007. Due to the idiosyncratic timing of state and local elections, the budgetary changes before elections at two tiers of the federalist government can be separately estimated and can also...

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Out of communal land: clientelism through delegation of agricultural tenancy contracts

Kurosaki, Takashi; Paul, Saumik; Witoelar, Firman - 2021

Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village...

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Policy diffusion through elections

Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Watanabe, Yasutora - 2023

Staggered difference-in-differences designs are pervasive in policy evaluations but little is known about the mechanisms of policy diffusion: How and why do such policies spread across jurisdictions? In this study, we highlight the role of elections in policy diffusion in settings where...

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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the … growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality. Finally, the important role of mid-left parties is highlighted. …

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The effect of unemployment on self-reported health and mental health in Greece from 2008 to 2013 : a longitudinal study before and during the financial crisis

Drydakis, Nick - 2014

-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the … periods of high unemployment, suggesting that the unemployment crisis in Greece is more devastating as it concerns more people …. Greece has been more deeply affected by the financial crisis than any other EU country, and this study contributes by …

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Decomposing poverty in hard times: Greece 2007-2016

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Kanavitsa, Eleni; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2020

Greece was inadequate while there was no "benefit of last resort". As a result, the relative position of households with …

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Working at home in Greece: unexplored potential at times of social distancing?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020

This paper investigates the incidence, trend and determinants of remote work in Greece. A crisis-stricken country in … the years preceding the Covid-19 crisis, Greece entered the first wave of the public health shock as a laggard in … arrangements in many countries, this paper presents evidence that working from home (WfH) in Greece was subdued in the past decade …

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Mass refugee inflow and long-run prosperity : lessons from the Greek population resettlement

Murard, Elie; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan - 2018

.2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly resettled from Turkey to Greece, increasing the Greek population by more than 20% within … thousand Greek municipalities that existed in Greece in 1920. Exploiting the spatial variation in the resettlement location, we …

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