Replication data from a Journal of Public Policy article compares local government reforms in Norway and Denmark. The dataset likely contains municipal expenditure figures used in a Difference-in-Difference-in-Difference design to estimate the cost of non-regulation. Author Jostein Askim published the data via Dataverse in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze pre-merger overspending patterns based on municipal expenditure data.
- Compare fiscal outcomes between regulated (Denmark) and non-regulated (Norway) scenarios.
- Model the effects of temporary restrictions on local fiscal autonomy.
- Estimate the costs of unrestricted overspending incentives using a multi-level difference-in-difference design.
Strengths
- Data is directly linked to a published academic article in Journal of Public Policy.
- Provides a comparative case study between two distinct national regulatory approaches.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Journal of Public Policy Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Likely gathered from official municipal financial records for Norway and Denmark.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-13 00:49:13; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Municipalities in Norway and Denmark