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Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal spending: regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities
(2010-06-16)
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with ...
Unconditional transfers goes to health? Evidence from Brazilian municipalities
(2015-03-02)
This study assesses the impact of unconditional transfer resources on the health indicators of Brazilian municipalities. This transfer refers to the Participation Fund of Municipalities (FPM) where at least 15% of its value ...
Efecto Incumbente en elecciones municipales: un análisis de regresión discontinua para Guatemala
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015)
The impact of grade retention on juvenile crime
(Elsevier, 2021)
This paper studies the causal effect of grade retention in primary school on juvenile crime in Chile. Implementing a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find that repeating an early grade in primary school decreases ...
Nature's choice? a study of the displacement of incumbents in elections
(2013-06-05)
How do economic shocks affect the behaviour of elections in democracies? Using U.S. Congress electoral data, I test whether sudden shocks affect unequally incumbent par- ties and opponents. This is identified through, among ...
The impact of mayor leadership on education: evidence from Brazil
(2015-06-29)
What are the impacts of female mayors on education? It is well known that in Brazil, like in many other countries around the globe, women are underrepresented in political posts. Understanding the impacts of this discrepancy ...
Investment capacity and the electoral marketplace: evidence from Brazil
(2019)
The importance of money in elections is a hallmark of contemporary democracies. In this paper, we study how investment capacity, defined as the resources remaining after the municipality perform the mandatory expenditures, ...
The Impact of Grade Retention on Juvenile Crime
(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
Using detailed administrative and individual data on schooling and crime records
from Chile, we estimate the effect of grade retention between 4th and 8th grade
on juvenile crime. We base our research on the rule which ...
Electoral rules and political competition : regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities
(Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía, 2020-11)
This paper uses exogenous variation in voting schemes to estimate the causal effect of
different electoral rules on political competition, exploiting a regression discontinuity design
in the assignment of single-ballot ...