Does gender matter for public spending? Empirical evidence from Italian municipalities
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Keywords
gender; political representation; municipal expenditure;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2011-11-28 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-POL-2011-11-28 (Positive Political Economics)
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