The Color of the Public Purse: Ideological Camp Effects on Resource Misallocation

• In Event: Local Government, Spending, and State Capacity

Brief Overview

The work evaluates the impact of partisanship on the use of accounting tricks to balance local level budgets. A machine learning exercise and a data-driver RD design on the margin of victory show a well identified null result in a novel setting.

Author

• Michele Castiglioni, European University Institute