TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manacorda,Marco
AU  - Miguel,Edward
AU  - Vigorito,Andrea
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Government Transfers and Political Support
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - February 2009; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w14702
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w14702
ER  -