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Happiness and Public Spending

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2022
This article presents the traditional limitations of happiness economics and the uncertainty about the econometric relationship between public spending and happiness.
François Facchini
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Public spending efficiency and political and economic factors: Evidence from selected East Asian countries [PDF]

Ekonomski Anali, 2012
This paper analyses public spending efficiency and the effect of political and economic factors on public spending efficiency in East Asian countries for the period 2000-2007.
Chan Sok-Gee, Karim Mohd Abd Zaini
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On Public Spending and Economic Unions [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
We analyze the conduct of fiscal policy in a financially integrated union in the presence of financial frictions. Frictions create a wedge between the return to investment and the union interest rate. This leads to an over-spending externality. While the social cost of spending is the return to investment, governments care mostly about the (depressed ...
Broner, Fernando, Martin, Alberto, Ventura, Jaume   +2 more
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Public Spending Efficiency in the OECD: Benchmarking Health Care, Education, and General Administration

Review of Economic Perspectives, 2020
In many OECD countries, changes in demography and health conditions are putting pressure on public finance. To prevent further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised.
Richard Dutu, P. Sicari
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Public Spending, Public Deficits, and Government Coalitions [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
This study examines the relationship between types of government and level of public spending. There are two competing perspectives about the consequences of coalition governments for the size of public expenditures. The most common argument is that government spending increases under coalition governments, compared with one-party governments.
Blais, André, Kim, Jiyoon, Foucault, Martial   +2 more
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Measuring the Distributional Impact of Taxation and Public Spending: The Practice of Fiscal Incidence Analysis

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2020
Taxation and public spending are key policy levers the state has in its power to change the distribution of income determined both by market forces and institutions and the prevailing distribution of wealth and property.
N. Lustig
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Voter Preferences, Electoral Promises, and the Composition of Public Spending

Social Science Research Network, 2020
This paper proposes and empirically tests a new demand-side explanation for distortions in public spending composition. Voters prefer spending with certain and immediate benefits when they have low trust in electoral promises and high discount rates. The
Philip Keefer, Carlos Scartascini, Razvan Vlaicu   +2 more
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A study on environment public spending

Economia & Região, 2013
This text deals with the importance of studying environment public spending. Initially, we discuss the concept of environment public spending and how it became a public accounting function.
Wellington Bueno, Fernando Oliana, Benilson Borinelli   +2 more
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Public sector spending

Welsh Economic Review, 2001
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WER Editorial Team
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Heterogenous Effects of Local Government Spending on Mortality Across Racial Groups Among Working-Age Adults in the U.S.

AJPM Focus, 2023
Introduction: Mortality among working-age adults has been rising, but the underlying reasons are not fully known. Given the relationship between higher levels of public spending and better health outcomes, it is possible that differences in public ...
Courtnee E. Melton-Fant, PhD
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