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Policy Diffusion Through Elections

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  • Hitoshi Shigeoka
  • Yasutora Watanabe

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Staggered difference-in-differences designs are pervasive in policy evaluations but little is known about the mechanisms of policy diffusion: How and why do such policies spread across jurisdictions? In this study, we highlight the role of elections in policy diffusion in settings where municipal elections are asynchronous due to historical reasons. First, we empirically show the presence of policy diffusion using neighbors’ election cycles as instruments for neighbors’ policy adoption. Second, we further demonstrate interactions of municipalities’ election cycles with neighbors’ adoption and show that they follow neighbors’ policy only during their own election timing, indicating that policy diffuses through elections.

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  • Hitoshi Shigeoka & Yasutora Watanabe, 2023. "Policy Diffusion Through Elections," NBER Working Papers 31441, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31441
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    • D04 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Policy: Formulation; Implementation; Evaluation
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • H73 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare

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