Browsing FGV CEPESP - Papers by Author "Barberia, Lorena Guadalupe"
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Do political budget cycles differ in Latin American democracies?
2010We test for political budget cycles in a panel of eighteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2008. Recent studies have argued that the pattern of deficit cycles in a large cross-section of countries is driven by the ... -
Opportunistic political cycles and social spending: an examination of transition and consolidated democracies in Latin America
2009In this paper, we show that education, health and social security expenditures did not increase during elections. Based on a panel of fifteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2000, we show that there are important ... -
Social spending and elections: an examination of Latin American third wave democracies, 1980-2008
2011-08During the period in which Latin America underwent the most lasting and widespread wave of democratization, we test whether governments targeted increases in social spending to coincide with presidential elections in a ...
