Determinants of Efficiency in Child-Care Provision

Montén, Anna; Thater, Christian

doi:10.1628/001522111x614178

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“…For example, there is evidence that remuneration of politicians or the way service provision is financed affects efficiency and effectiveness (Montén and Thater, 2011). Understanding better the channels through which this happens, and looking for other potentially efficiency-enhancing reforms, represent a very interesting topic for further research.…”

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Public-Sector Efficiency and Political Culture

Giordano¹,

Tommasino²

2013

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The cost-effective public provision of high-quality goods and services is crucial for longterm growth. We study the determinants of public-sector efficiency (PSE) and in particular the role of citizens' political values. Indeed, we argue that citizens' willingness to monitor public affairs is necessary if policymakers are to be held accountable for what they do and deterred from wasting public resources. Contrary to other papers, our empirical analysis exploits within-country variation, thereby reducing the risk of omittedvariable bias and implicitly controlling for differences in formal institutions. First, we compute PSE measures for several public services (education, civil justice, health care, child care, and waste disposal) for the 103 Italian provinces; then we show that a higher degree of political engagement increases PSE. This remains true even after controlling for the possible endogeneity of political values. In our analysis, values specifically related to the political sphere are kept distinct from generically prosocial values. Our results suggest that the latter have no independent effect on PSE.

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Public-Sector Efficiency and Political Culture

Giordano¹,

Tommasino²

2013

131

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“…Regarding the outputs, we opted for the total number of places ( Places ) for people with social care needs (Montén & Thater, 2011), the surface area of the facilities ( Surface ) that provide welfare services to the population (Balaguer‐Coll et al, 2013) and the number of potential users (Afonso & Fernandes, 2008), which was measured by the number of inhabitants in the municipality under 16 and over 65 ( Social Pop ). The selection of the latter variable as output is because it is necessary to include the dependent population as potential users of welfare services.…”

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Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency

2022

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Spanish legislation on gender quotas in electoral candidate lists implies the effective incorporation of women into politics. This measure has created interest in the impact of this law on public service management (substantive representation), especially welfare services. This is due to the influence these services have on work‐life balance. Hence, the objective of this research is to determine the impact of women politicians on the efficiency of municipal welfare services. We estimate efficiency levels in public social service management using non‐parametric techniques over the last three local government legislatures in Spain. We then use truncated regression models to estimate the impact of women's substantive representation on these efficiency levels. The results confirm that more women in local government and female leadership in the opposition result in better levels of efficiency through reduced spending. In contrast, female leadership in the government and many women in the opposition reduce efficiency by supporting spending without increasing welfare services.

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“…Sources: (Ministry of Justice, Sweden, 2006 [52]; Ehrenberg-Sundi, n.d. [53]; Alsina Naudi, 2018 [54]; European Commission, 2019 [55]; Ministro per la Pubblica Amministrazione, 2020 [43])…”

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Strengthening Italy’s public sector effectiveness

2021

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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Determinants of Efficiency in Child-Care Provision

Cited by 14 publications

References 48 publications

Public-Sector Efficiency and Political Culture

Public-Sector Efficiency and Political Culture

Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency

Strengthening Italy’s public sector effectiveness

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