Policy Diffusion through Elections

Arbeitspapier

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16275

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation ; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation ; State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects ; State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
• Thema: policy diffusion ; elections ; subsidy ; child healthcare ; political budget cycles

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Shigeoka, Hitoshi ; Watanabe, Yasutora
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2023

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/278973
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ