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Demographic change and public education spending : a conflict between young and old?
Grob, Ueli; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2005
Demographic change in industrial countries will influence educational spending in potentially two ways. On the one hand, the decline in the number of school-age children should alleviate the financial pressure. On the other hand, the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261342
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Are the Elderly a Threat to Educational Expenditures?
Cattaneo, Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021
Empirical research has given cause to fear that the demographic ageing in industrialized countries is likely to exert a negative impact on educational spending. These papers have linked the share of the elderly with the per capita or per pupil spending on education at the local, state-wide or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316836
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Demographic change and public education spending : a conflict between young and old?
Grob, Ueli (contributor); Wolter, Stefan C. (contributor) - 2005
Demographic change in industrial countries will influence educational spending in potentially two ways. On the one hand, the decline in the number of school-age children should alleviate the financial pressure. On the other hand, the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003201836
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Are the elderly a threat to educational expenditures?
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2007
Empirical research has given cause to fear that the demographic ageing in industrialized countries is likely to exert a negative impact on educational spending. These papers have linked the share of the elderly with the per capita or per pupil spending on education at the local, state-wide or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272625
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Do Institutions of Direct Democracy Tame the Leviathan? Swiss Evidence on the Structure of Expenditure for Public Education
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2021
the U.S. and Switzerland has raised the question of the exact transmission channels for this impact. Studies for the U … hypothesis of a Leviathan-like school administration. However, research for Switzerland using a time-series panel of sub … efficiency gains in the provision of public goods for Switzerland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318116
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How do electoral systems affect fiscal policy? : evidence from state and local governments, 1890 to 2005
Funk, Patricia; Gathmann, Christina - 2010
Using a new data set on Swiss state and local governments from 1890 to today, we analyze how the adoption of proportional representation affects fiscal policy. We show that proportional systems shift spending toward broad goods (e.g. education and welfare benefits) but decrease spending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938710
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country : Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892461
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Protestantism and government spendig : a negative relationship? ; an empirical application to Swiss Cantons
Fischer, Justina A. V. (contributor);  … - 2007
Recent empirical growth literature suggests that cultural factors play a decisive role in economic development, while empirical evidence for their impact on government activity remains scant. In this paper, we conjecture based on Weber's Protestant Ethics that 'Protestant values' such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003604466
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Protestantism and Government Spending : A Negative Relationship? An Empirical Application to Swiss Cantons
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2008
Recent empirical growth literature suggests that cultural factors play a decisive role in economic development, while empirical evidence for their impact on government activity remains scant. In this paper, we conjecture based on Weber's Protestant Ethics that 'Protestant values' such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012725749
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How does depreciations management affect subsequent fiscal performance? : the case of the Swiss cantons
Clémenceau, Maxime; Soguel, Nils - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 154 (2018) 1, pp. 1-15
Creative accounting allows governments and, more particularly, finance ministers to somehow manage financial reports to achieve specific and possibly self-interested goals. It is usually used to hide deficits. It sometimes also helps to present financial performance as being more worrisome than...
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