Thushyanthan Baskaran

Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Primary Field: Urban/Geographic (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/thushyanthanbaskaran/home

First Publication: 2009

Most Recent: 2024

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	A (2x)	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	3.03	1.68	0.59	5.30	84%
Last 10 Years	5.05	10.60	0.93	16.57	96%
All Time	14.46	15.64	2.94	33.05	96%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 25

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 28.78

Publications (25)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2024	The regional economics of mineral resource wealth in Africa	Economica	C	4
2024	Young versus old politicians and public spending priorities	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	3
2024	Women legislators and economic performance	Journal of Economic Growth	A	4
2023	Political selection when uncertainty is high	Kyklos	C	3
2022	The gender recontest gap in elections	European Economic Review	B	2
2021	Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German states	Journal of Urban Economics	A	2
2020	Distributive spending and presidential partisan politics	Public Choice	B	2
2020	Pigou, Tiebout, property taxation and the under-provision of local public goods	Journal of Economic Geography	B	1
2018	Does the Election of a Female Leader Clear the Way for More Women in Politics?	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy	A	2
2017	Direct Democracy and Local Public Finances under Cooperative Federalism	Scandanavian Journal of Economics	B	4
2017	The effect of direct democracy on the level and structure of local taxes	Regional Science and Urban Economics	B	3
2017	Political alignment and intergovernmental transfers in parliamentary systems: evidence from Germany	Public Choice	B	2
2016	Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization, and Economic Growth: a Meta-Analysis	Economic Inquiry	C	3
2016	Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	2
2016	Do municipal mergers reduce costs? Evidence from a German federal state	Regional Science and Urban Economics	B	2
2016	Government Impartiality and Sustained Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa	World Development	B	3
2016	Electoral thresholds and political representation	Public Choice	B	2
2015	Election cycles and electricity provision: Evidence from a quasi-experiment with Indian special elections	Journal of Public Economics	A	3
2014	Identifying local tax mimicking with administrative borders and a policy reform	Journal of Public Economics	A	1
2014	Taxation and Democratization	World Development	B	1
2013	Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa	World Development	B	2
2012	Revenue decentralization and inflation: A re-evaluation	Economics Letters	C	1
2012	Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational borrowing: Evidence from the German States, 1975–2005	Journal of Urban Economics	A	1
2010	On the link between fiscal decentralization and public debt in OECD countries	Public Choice	B	1
2009	Did the Maastricht treaty matter for macroeconomic performance? A difference‐in‐difference investigation	Kyklos	C	1