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- Title
Drought‐Reliefs and Partisanship.
- Authors
Boffa, Federico; Cavalcanti, Francisco; Fons‐Rosen, Christian; Piolatto, Amedeo
- Abstract
We combine a model of symmetric information with selfish and office‐motivated politicians and a Regression Discontinuity Design analysis based on close municipal elections to study partisan bias in the allocation of drought aid relief in Brazil. We identify a novel pattern of distributive politics whereby partisan bias materialises only before municipal elections, while it disappears before presidential elections. Furthermore, before mayoral elections, it fades for extreme (high or low) aridity levels while persisting for moderate levels. Our empirical results show that in this case alignment increases the probability of receiving aid relief by a factor of two (equivalent to 18.1 percentage points).
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PARTISANSHIP; REGRESSION discontinuity design; LOCAL elections; DROUGHT management; MAYORAL elections; PUBLIC welfare; DROUGHTS
- Publication
Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 2024, Vol 86, Issue 2, p187
- ISSN
0305-9049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/obes.12560