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Replication data for: Government Transfers and Political Support

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Title Replication data for: Government Transfers and Political Support
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27559
 
Creator Manacorda, Marco
Miguel, Edward
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description 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 discontinuity in program assignment based on a pretreatment eligibility score, we find that beneficiary households are 11 to 13 percentage points more likely to favor the current government relative to the previous government. Political support effects persist after the program ends. Our results are consistent with theories of rational but poorly informed voters who use policy to infer politicians' redistributive preferences or competence, as well as with behavioral economics expectations grounded in reciprocity.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Political Processes
Redistributive Effects
Government Expenditures
Government Welfare
Antipoverty
Human Development
Economic Development
Uruguay
South America
Latin America
 
Date 2011