Local public finances in Brazil: are mayoral characteristics important?
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Education; experience; gender; mayors; regression discontinuity.;All these keywords.
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- H83 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Public Administration
- C52 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GTH-2016-04-09 (Game Theory)
- NEP-MIC-2016-04-09 (Microeconomics)
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