Arbeitspapier
Green Governments
We examine how Green governments influence macroeconomic, education, and environmental outcomes. Our empirical strategy exploits that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan gave rise to an unanticipated change in government in the German state Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011. The incumbent rightwing government was replaced by a leftwing government led by the Green party. We use the synthetic control method to select control states against which Baden-Wuerttemberg’s outcomes can be compared. The results do not suggest that the Green government influenced macroeconomic outcomes. The Green government implemented education policies that caused comprehensive schools to become larger. We find no evidence that the Green government influenced CO2 emissions, particulate matter emissions, or increased energy usage from renewable energies overall. An intriguing result is that the share of wind power usage decreased relative to the estimated counterfactual. Intra-ecological conflicts and realities in public office are likely to have prevented the Green government from implementing drastic policy changes.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8726
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: General
Analysis of Education
Energy: Government Policy
Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- Subject
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Green governments
partisan politics
synthetic control method
causal effects
Fukushima nuclear disaster
environmental policies
energy policies
renewable energies
comprehensive schools
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Potrafke, Niklas
Wüthrich, Kaspar
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Potrafke, Niklas
- Wüthrich, Kaspar
- Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2020
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