This paper estimates the impact of a large anti-poverty cash transfer program, the
Uruguayan PANES, on political support for the government that implemented it. Using the …

Utilizing a unique data set from the Italian Ministry of Justice reporting the transmission to the
Chamber of Deputies of more than the thousand requests for the removal of parliamentary …

Researchers have scrutinized foreign aid's effects on poverty and growth, but anecdotal
evidence suggests that donors often use aid for other ends. We test whether donors use …

I assess the impacts of targeted government transfers on a local incumbent's electoral
performance. I use the randomized roll-out of a CCT program in the Philippines. Although …

Migration is thought to cause sons of the soil conflict, particularly if natives tend to be
unemployed. Using data from India, the authors investigate the causal effect of domestic …

Famine mortality is preventable by government action and yet some famines kill. We
develop a political theory of famine mortality based on the selectorate theory of Bueno de …

Objective Voters are more likely to reelect incumbents when political outcomes are positive.
Although most scholars assume this is because voters explicitly credit politicians for good …

We explore in this article an institutional foundation of agricultural protectionism in Japan, a
country long recognized as resisting international pressures to open up its rice market …

A consensus is beginning to emerge that local institutions, governments and development
agencies have to pay greater attention to building resilience against natural disasters. This …

This article exploits the international transmission of business cycles to examine the
prevalence of attribution error in economic voting in a large panel of countries from 1990 to …