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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020

public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a large fiscal transfer fund earmarked for social investment in more … effects on seven nonmonetary welfare measures. In contrast, these funds have no significant impact on extreme and moderate … monetary poverty. These results provide important lessons for policy on the effects of earmarked funds to reduce territorial …

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The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks

Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2023

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...

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Local Political Budget Cycles in a Federation : Evidence from West German Cities

Furdas, Marina Dimitrova - 2015

federalist government can be separately estimated and can also be distinguished from common time effects. Both local and state …

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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints : A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design

Grembi, Veronica - 2012

We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...

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Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?

Faber, Riemer P. - 2012

This paper studies a conditional block grant that Dutch municipalities receive for welfare-to-work programs. Many municipalities do not fully use this grant, although programs are beneficial for them. We argue that municipalities incur expenses to use the grant. If these costs are substantial,...

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The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2014

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …

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Corrupting Learning : Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

Ferraz, Claudio - 2013

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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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income

Giertz, Seth H. - 2012

This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation include the impact of tax-induced migration on state revenues, excess burden, and fiscal...

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Fiscal Decentralization and Development : How Crucial is Local Politics?

Pal, Sarmistha - 2010

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal...

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Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2012

The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) referred to 22...

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