We study attitude towards redistribution by local policy-makers in the context of public childcare in Italy. Within a substantially ho- mogeneous legislative framework, different municipalities autonomously define how participation fees vary with a compound indicator of in- come and wealth (ISEE), thus redistributing resources across house- holds using the service. The nearly one hundred municipalities we take into account exhibit wide heterogeneity in redistributive atti-tudes. We find statistically significant correlations with a number of individual characteristics of policy-makers and municipalities, but not with those of the ex-ante distribution of income, which should be cen- tral according to both normative and positive theory. Since the price of public childcare is subsidized, resources are also redistributed from tax-payers to users. The evidence we find is consistent with the hy-pothesis that this type of redistribution is a public good

Bucciol, A., Cavalli, L., Pertile, P., Polin, V., Sommacal, A., Redistribution at the Local Level: The Case of Public Childcare in Italy, <<INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS>>, 2016; (n/a): N/A-N/A. [doi:10.1007/s12232-016-0258-z] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/80615]

Redistribution at the Local Level: The Case of Public Childcare in Italy

Cavalli, Laura
Secondo
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Pertile, Paolo;Polin, Veronica
Penultimo
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2016

Abstract

We study attitude towards redistribution by local policy-makers in the context of public childcare in Italy. Within a substantially ho- mogeneous legislative framework, different municipalities autonomously define how participation fees vary with a compound indicator of in- come and wealth (ISEE), thus redistributing resources across house- holds using the service. The nearly one hundred municipalities we take into account exhibit wide heterogeneity in redistributive atti-tudes. We find statistically significant correlations with a number of individual characteristics of policy-makers and municipalities, but not with those of the ex-ante distribution of income, which should be cen- tral according to both normative and positive theory. Since the price of public childcare is subsidized, resources are also redistributed from tax-payers to users. The evidence we find is consistent with the hy-pothesis that this type of redistribution is a public good
2016
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Bucciol, A., Cavalli, L., Pertile, P., Polin, V., Sommacal, A., Redistribution at the Local Level: The Case of Public Childcare in Italy, <<INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS>>, 2016; (n/a): N/A-N/A. [doi:10.1007/s12232-016-0258-z] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/80615]
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