Political Competition and Welfare Provision: What does Quasi-experimental Data from Brazilian Runoff Election Tell us?

• In Event: Welfare Provision in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

We exploit the exogenous variation of the assignment of runoff elections only to Brazilian cities with electorates bigger than 200,000 voters to address this question: do political competition augments increases welfare-related spending?

Authors

• Jefferson Leal, Universidade Paulista

• Graziele C. Silotto, University of São Paulo