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Thushyanthan Baskaran

Global rank #2793 96%

Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Primary Field: Public (weighted toward more recent publications)

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

First Publication: 2009

Most Recent: 2024

RePEc ID: pba615 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 1.51 1.68 0.00 5.28
Last 10 Years 0.00 2.51 10.56 0.00 16.51
All Time 0.00 7.21 15.58 0.00 32.93

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