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Political Turnover Negatively Affects the Quality of Public Services: A Replication
The politically motivated replacement in local governments is a pervasive fact in our modern democracies. Whether it has causal effects on the quality of public services, such as education, is a critical question and yet understudied. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD) for close elections to replicate Akthari, Moreira and Trucco (2022) who find negative effects on the quality of public education in Brazil (.05-.08 standard deviations of lower test scores). I first reproduce these main results, finding minor computational differences that have no effect on the conclusions. I also show that the estimates for Brazil are in general robust to different specifications following Brodeur, Cook and Heyes (2020). Finally, I implement the same RDD framework now applied to Chilean administrative records to find null effects on test scores. Taken together, these results suggest that political turnover has weakly negative effects on service quality.
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Englisch
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Series: I4R Discussion Paper Series ; No. 39
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
Public Sector Labor Markets
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- Subject
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Replication
Robustness
Political Turnover
Regression Discontinuity
Quality of Public Services
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gallegos, Sebastian
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for Replication (I4R)
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s.l.
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2023
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Gallegos, Sebastian
- Institute for Replication (I4R)
Time of origin
- 2023
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