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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472495
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The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks
Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2021
We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518088
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The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investments in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sjahrir Putra, Bambang Suharnoko … - 2014
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230500
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Distributional effects of intergovernmental transfers in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Cadena, Kiyomi; Moreno … - 2020
A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202072
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The importance of being local? : administrative decentralization and human development
Chaudhary, Latika; Lakshmi Iyer - 2024
governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545252
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831711
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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'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793550
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931974
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The distributional impact of public services when needs differ
Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep; Langørgen, Audun; … - 2010
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944269
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548661