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Does the Left Spend More? An Econometric Survey of Partisan Politics*
Author(s) -
Magkonis Georgios,
Zekente KalliopiMaria,
Logothetis Vasilios
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.131
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0084
pISSN - 0305-9049
DOI - 10.1111/obes.12426
Subject(s) - ideology , politics , government (linguistics) , economics , survey data collection , subject (documents) , empirical evidence , positive economics , work (physics) , public economics , econometrics , focus (optics) , political science , statistics , law , epistemology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , physics , mathematics , optics , library science , computer science , engineering
This study provides a quantitative review of the empirical literature on partisan politics. Given the voluminous work on this subject, we focus on the relationship between government ideology and public spending. By exploiting a dataset of 800 estimates from papers published between 1992 and 2018, we find no evidence of publication bias. Taking into account the differences in the various categories of spending, proxies of ideologies, estimations methods, as well as, data and publication characteristics, we find evidence of a small positive and significant effect.