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Do female mayors make a difference? Evidence from Bavaria
Schild, Christopher-Johannes - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
politicians because they won an initial election in spite of the fact that electorates are typically gender-biased against female …
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HDR 1995 - Gender and Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Report 1995. The Report analyses the progress made in reducing gender disparities in the past few decades, highlighting the … for ranking countries on a global scale by their performance in gender equality (GEM) and (GDI), and analyses the under …-valuation and non-recognition of women's work. It offers a five-point strategy for equalizing gender opportunities in the decade …
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HDR 2010 - The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
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The Budgetary Repercussions Of Capital Convictions
Baicker, Katherine - In: Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (2004) 1, pp. 1311-1311
Understanding how transient fiscal distress affects the stability and distribution of local budgets is increasingly important as control of public spending and revenues becomes more decentralized. This paper exploits the large and unexpected shock to county budgets imposed by capital crime...
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La constitution peut-elle garantir l'autonomie financiere des collectivites territoriales ?
Guengant, Alain - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2004) 5, pp. 653-672
This paper analyses to which extent local fiscal autonomy is preserved by a 2003 reform of the French Constitution. This reform states that the tax revenues share in financing local budgets will not be lower than its 2003 value calculated at each level of local government, but not necessarily...
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Économie des finances locales : trente cinq ans de recherche au CREFAUR
Guengant, Alain - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2002) 5, pp. 687-706
This article provides a survey of the research on local public finance over the past thirty-five years at the CREFAUR. The article consists of a non-exhaustive survey of four main fields of research : local public spending and taxation behaviors, the determinants of inter-jurisdictional fiscal...
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Capitalization of Central Government Grants into Local House Prices: Panel Data Evidence from England
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; … - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2010
We explore the impact of central government grants on local house prices in England using a panel data set of local authorities (LAs) from 2001 to 2008. Electoral targeting of grants to LAs by the incumbent national government provides an exogenous source of variation in grants that we exploit...
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Voter suffrage and the political budget cycle: evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902-1937
Aidt, Toke; Mooney, Graham - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
We study the opportunistic political budget cycle in the London Metropolitan Boroughs between 1902 and 1937 under two different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting evidence that the political budget cycle operates...
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Capitalization of central government grants into local house prices: panel data evidence from England
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Lyytikainen, Teemu; Vermeulen, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
We explore the impact of central government grants on local house prices in England using a panel data set of local authorities (LAs) from 2001 to 2008. Electoral targeting of grants to LAs by the incumbent national government provides an exogenous source of variation in grants that we exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745191
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Capitalization of central government grants into local house prices: panel data evidence from England
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Lyytikäinen, Teemu; … - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
We explore the impact of central government grants on local house prices in England using a panel data set of local authorities (LAs) from 2001 to 2008. Electoral targeting of grants to LAs by the incumbent national government provides an exogenous source of variation in grants that we exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685132