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Government spending and re-election: Quasi-experimental evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Litschig, Stephan; Morrison, Kevin - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
Does additional government spending improve the electoral chances of incumbent political parties? This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on this question. Our research design exploits discontinuities in federal funding to local governments in Brazil around several population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564762
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Quality of Local Public Good Provision and Electoral Support
Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019
new insights into the link between local governmental spending and voting behavior. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099154
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Quality of local public good provision and rlectoral support
Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019
new insights into the link between local governmental spending and voting behavior. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012307746
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The Long-run and Intergenerational Education Impacts of Intergovernmental Transfers
Filho, Irineu de Carvalho; Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013
This paper provides regression discontinuity evidence on long-run and intergenerational education impacts of a temporary increase in federal transfers to local governments in Brazil. Revenues and expenditures of the communities benefiting from extra transfers temporarily increased by about 20%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851460
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The long-run and intergenerational education impacts of intergovernmental transfers
Filho, Irineu de Carvalho; Litschig, Stephan - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2013
This paper provides regression discontinuity evidence on long-run and intergenerational education impacts of a temporary increase in federal transfers to local governments in Brazil. Revenues and expenditures of the communities benefiting from extra transfers temporarily increased by about 20%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929580
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Does a District-Vote Matter for the Behavior of Politicians? A Textual Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches
Born, Andreas; Janssen, Aljoscha - 2020
her party-line. A district-election does not affect roll call voting behavior causally, possibly due to overall high … adherence to party voting. Analyzing the parliamentary speeches of each MP allows us to overcome the high party discipline with … regard to parliamentary voting. Using textual analysis and machine learning techniques, we create two measures of closeness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615388
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Downstream Effects of Voting on Turnout and Political Preferences: Long-Run Evidence from the UK
Jessen, Jonas; Kühnle, Daniel; Wagner, Markus - 2021
Does voting have downstream consequences for turnout and political preferences? While research initially showed strong … support for the notion that the experience of voting fosters civic habits and political engagement, recent work has cast doubt … voting eligibility on subsequent turnout and political preferences using rich panel data from the UK. Exploiting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597442
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Downstream effects of voting on turnout and political preferences: long-run evidence from the UK
Jessen, Jonas; Kühnle, Daniel; Wagner, Markus - 2021
Does voting have downstream consequences for turnout and political preferences? While research initially showed strong … support for the notion that the experience of voting fosters civic habits and political engagement, recent work has cast doubt … voting eligibility on subsequent turnout and political preferences using rich panel data from the UK. Exploiting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517154
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Does a district-vote matter for the behavior of politicians? : a textual analysis of parliamentary speeches
Born, Andreas; Janssen, Aljoscha - 2020
her party-line. A district-election does not affect roll call voting behavior causally, possibly due to overall high … adherence to party voting. Analyzing the parliamentary speeches of each MP allows us to overcome the high party discipline with … regard to parliamentary voting. Using textual analysis and machine learning techniques, we create two measures of closeness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167469
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Government Transfers and Political Support
Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; Vigorito, Andrea - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
the probabilistic voting model in political economy. Effects persist after the cash transfer program ends. We estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256485