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Legislative Term Limits and State Aid to Local Governments

Yakovlev, Pavel A. - 2012

We estimate the effect of legislative term limits on various categories of state government spending using the most recent panel of 47 states from 1972 to 2005. Besides the usual economic, political, fiscal and demographic factors, we also control for the state tax and expenditure limitations....

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The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power

Firpo, Sergio - 2014

The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget as a strategy to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such a strategy is rewarded by voters who elect politicians who assist their...

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Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilising Effects of an EU Tax-Benefit System

Bargain, Olivier - 2012

The current debt crisis has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. The view is widespread that moving towards a 'fiscal union' would have a stabilising effect in the event of macroeconomic shocks. In this paper we study the economic effects of introducing two elements...

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Parental Health and Child Schooling

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2011

Evidence on the role of parental health on child schooling is surprisingly thin. We explore this issue by estimating the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from Bosnia-Herzegovina, a country whose health and educational...

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Remittances and Chain Migration : Longitudinal Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2009

Most of the literature on remittances has focused on their implications for the welfare of family members in the country of origin and has disregarded the possibility for remittances to trigger chain migration. In this paper, we address this issue with the use of longitudinal data from Bosnia...

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Insurance and Solidarity : Evidence from a Lab-in-The-Field Experiment in Cambodia

Lenel, Friederike - 2017

This paper investigates the crowding out of informal support among peers by the introduction of formal insurance. We show that the availability of insurance changes people's intrinsic motivation to support others. We report results from a lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Cambodia. Half...

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Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Strobl, Renate - 2017

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance … subjects. The reduction of solidarity is driven by a change in giving behaviour of persons with the risky project. Compared to … to show solidarity is influenced by both the desire for own compensation and attributions of responsibility. Our findings …

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Risky Choices and Solidarity : Why Experimental Design Matters

Wunsch, Conny - 2018

Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of individuals facing negative income shocks based on randomized experiments. In this paper, we show that...

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Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?

Grimm, Michael - 2013

Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment which we test on data from tailors in Burkina Faso. The empirical results support the idea that there are two behavioural patterns: entrepreneurs following an 'insurance regime'...

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Social Distance and Trust : Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo

Binzel, Christine - 2013

While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a member of a given social network (a friend), by...

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