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Management and performance in the public sector : evidence from German municipalities
Englmaier, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; … - 2022
We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of … positive relationship between the degree of structured management and a diverse set of performance measures capturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013431644
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Returns to office in national and local politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2016
We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a regression discontinuity design in any electoral system. We apply the method to the Finnish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493992
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Do better paid politicians perform better? : disentangling incentives from selection
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2009
The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of … their in-office deeds, a higher wage may foster performance. We use data on all Italian municipal governments from 1993 to … performance. Our results show that a higher wage attracts more educated candidates, and that better paid politicians size down the …
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Building political collusion : evidence from procurement auctions
Coviello, Decio; Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2010
We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they administered between 2000 and 2005. Identification is achieved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962924
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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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Corrupting learning : evidence from missing federal education funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.; Moreira, Diana B. - 2012
significant negative association between corruption and the school performance of primary school students. Students residing in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548661
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Stimulating local public employment : do general grants work?
Lundqvist, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2010
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...
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Meet the press : how voters and politicians respond to newspaper entry and exit
Drago, Francesco; Nannicini, Tommaso; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2013
This paper evaluates the effects of changes in the supply of news provided by newspapers on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. We address these issues in the Italian context by constructing a new dataset covering the presence of local news by different types...
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Institutional development and colonial heritage within Brazil
Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Assunção, … - 2009
This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872707
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision : evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680586