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Corrupting learning : evidence from missing federal education funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - 2012
This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...
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Politics in the family : nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Manacorda, Marco - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social security records on a random sample of around 1 million private sector employees with the universe of...
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The societal costs of inflation and unemployment
Popova, Olga; See, Sarah Grace; Nikolova, Milena; … - 2023
What are the broad societal implications of inflation and unemployment? Analyzing a dataset of over 1.9 million …, we find that both inflation and unemployment have a negative link with confidence in financial institutions. While … inflation is generally unassociated with confidence in government and leadership approval, unemployment still has a strong …
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Assessing Australian monetary policy in the twenty-first century
Gross, Isaac; Leigh, Andrew - 2022
high during 2016-2019, keeping inflation below the Reserve Bank's target band. Optimal monetary policy in 2016-2019 would …
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Burden or relief? : fiscal impacts of recent Ukrainian migration to Poland
Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2015
Immigration has become recently one of the most important subjects in socio-economic debates. In many countries immigrants are commonly presented as a threat to host economies and societies. On top of this fiscal impacts of immigration are ones of the hottest and most controversial topics in...
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Incidence of a "social VAT" reform : a French scenario
Rebière, Thérèse - 2013
This paper studies the fiscal incidence of a fiscal reform consisting of a reduction in employers' social insurance contributions financed by a tax based on the value added. In a closed economy with two sectors calibrated thanks to the French National Accounts, a "social VAT" leads to a rise in...
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Anatomy of policy complementarities
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of...
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Gender interactions within hierarchies : evidence from the political arena
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2009
This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...
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Curbing cream-skimming : evidence on enrolment incentives
Courty, Pascal (contributor); Kim, Do Han (contributor);  … - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
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Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal expenditures : regression discontinuity evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Chamon, Marcos; Mello, Joao M. P. de; Firpo, Sérgio … - 2009
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with a plurality of the vote. In municipalities with more than 200,000 voters a...
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