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Government Transfers and Political Support / Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel, Andrea Vigorito.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manacorda, Marco.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14702.
- NBER working paper series no. w14702
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.
- Summary:
- We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty cash transfer program, the Uruguayan PANES, on political support for the government that implemented it. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a pre-treatment eligibility score, we find that beneficiary households are 11 to 14 percentage points more likely to favor the current government relative to the previous government. Political support effects persist after the program ends. A calibration exercise indicates that these persistent impacts are consistent with a model of rational but poorly informed voters learning about politicians' redistributive preferences.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2009.
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