socio-economic factors. Municipalities ruled by mayors that belong to a right-wing party are more prone to financial … distress, and some municipalities are more financially vulnerable than others because of structural circumstances. …

created 11 municipalities between 1994 and 2004. Using territories that sought, but failed to, achieve independence as … controls, we find that schools in newly created municipalities, on average, experienced a standard deviation decline of 0.2 in … classroom teachers and school management teams in newly created municipalities. In contrast, we found that reducing the size of …

conclude that e-management in municipalities until the COVID-19 pandemic was applied only in exceptional cases due to …

-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show that highway access influences local employment outcomes in peripheral municipalities … flows within the periphery, while we find opposing effects on core municipalities. Improved accessibility also gives rise to …