Open AccessThe Welfare Consequences of Centralization: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Switzerland
Author(s) -
Sarah Flèche
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the review of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.999
H-Index - 165
eISSN - 1530-9142
pISSN - 0034-6535
DOI - 10.1162/rest_a_00894
Subject(s) - welfare , politics , natural experiment , economics , government (linguistics) , public economics , political process , local government , variation (astronomy) , political science , public administration , market economy , law , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , physics , astrophysics
Many countries are reallocating tasks and powers to more central levels of government. To identify centralization’s welfare effects, I use a difference-in-differences design that relies on time and...
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