led to a sudden increase in accessibility to EU grants for firms located in 33 Portuguese municipalities. Using a …

average elderly mortality rate in the treated municipalities. The reduction in the elderly mortality rate was greater in … municipalities with a large proportion of childless elderly people, suggesting that telecare may be particularly useful for the … elderly who find it more difficult to rely on strong family ties. Moreover, it was stronger in small municipalities …

municipalities where mayors are in their final term, there is significantly more corruption compared to similar municipalities where … municipalities with lame-duck mayors. The findings suggest that electoral rules that enhance political accountability play a crucial …

across Brazil's municipal governments. The analysis exploits discontinuities in wages across municipalities induced by a …

-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of … political power are partly inherited from the colonial histories experienced by different areas of the country. Municipalities … structure display today more inequality in the distribution of endowments (land). Municipalities with origins tracing back to …

stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation between and within ranks. We find that in municipalities headed by … when we control for municipality fixed effects as well as non-random sorting of women into municipalities using regression …