Government Transfers and Political Support
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- Marco Manacorda & Edward Miguel & Andrea Vigorito, 2011. "Government Transfers and Political Support," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 3(3), pages 1-28, July.
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Keywords
Conditional cash transfers; Redistributive politics; Regression discontinuity; Voting;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2009-02-28 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2009-02-28 (Positive Political Economics)
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