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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Markets / Nicola Bianchi, Michela Giorcelli, Enrica Maria Martino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bianchi, Nicola.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29538.
- NBER working paper series no. w29538
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- This paper studies how fiscal decentralization affects local services. It explores a 1993 reform that increased the fiscal autonomy of Italian municipalities by replacing government transfers with revenues from a local property tax. Our identifica- tion leverages cross-municipal variation in the degree of decentralization that stems from differences in the average age of buildings caused by bombings during WWII. Decentralization reduced local spending but expanded municipal services, such as nursery schools. These effects are larger in areas with greater political competition. The paper also investigates how the reform affected labor markets. Decentralization increased female labor supply--probably through expanded availability of nursery schools--thereby reducing the gender gap in employment.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2021.
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