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Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds

Finan, Frederico S.; Mazzocco, Maurizio - 2016

funds. We use data from Brazil's federal legislature, which grants each federal legislator a budget to fund public projects … limits also reduce distortions, but come at the cost of more corruption, which makes it a welfare-reducing policy. …

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The political resource curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010

The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of … endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence refers to municipalities in Brazil, where federal transfers to municipal … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed …

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The Political Resource Curse

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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The Short and Medium Term Effects of Full-Day Schooling on Learning and Maternal Labor Supply

Bovini, Giulia; Cattadori, Niccolò; De Philippis, Marta; … - 2023

This paper considers the case of Italy to analyze the short- and medium-term effect of a longer school day in primary school on both students' learning and mothers' labor supply. we rely on unique application-to-primary-school data: first, we control for parental preferences, proxied by...

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The E-Word – On the Public Acceptance of Experiments

Fischer, Mira; Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023

Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence, but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences for experimental policy evaluations in a representative survey in Germany (N1,900). We find that a...

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Access to Formal Childcare for Toddlers and Parental Employment and Earnings

Fukai, Taiyo; Kondo, Ayako - 2024

This study examines the effect of availability of accredited childcare centers, the most popular category of publicly licensed childcare centers in Japan, on mothers' employment and earnings. We focus on mothers with children less than two years old, most of whom are returning from parental...

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A Tale of the Tails: The Value of a Statistical Life at the Tails of the Age Distribution

Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2024

The considerable literature on the value of a statistical life (VSL) documents the wage-mortality risk tradeoffs for the working population. Regulatory analyses often must monetize risks to populations at the tails of the age distribution. Because of the longer life expectancy for children,...

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Keeping in touch: a benefit of public holidays

Merz, Joachim; Osberg, Lars - 2006

This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing...

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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...

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Money for nothing? Universal child care and maternal employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009

The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country differences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...

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