We uncover evidence that the US–China trade war was consequential for voting outcomes
in the 2018 congressional midterm election. Republican House candidates lost support in …

Millions of the world's poorest people now live in middle-income democracies that, in theory,
could use their resources to end extreme poverty. However, citizens in those countries have …

Technological progress is widely recognized as a fundamental driver of economic
development and structural transformation. Nevertheless, substantial variations in …

Unlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly
the author's general reflections on the broad issues of governance (or mis-governance …

Do citizens expect candidates who hand out goods at election time to provide services once
they take office? The literature provides competing views of the relationship between …

In this paper, I estimate the causal effects of a local food-subsidy program on electoral
outcomes. I exploit the variation in voters' walking distances from the program stores to …

During the 2014 Indian general elections, we carried out a large-scale experiment
randomizing a radio campaign highlighting the disadvantages of voting for corrupt vote …

Conventional wisdom says vote buying undermines trust in elections, but few have
examined this systematically. We identify why this relationship ought to hold, on average …

This paper investigates the prevalence of vote-buying in democratic elections where
stringent restrictions on corporate donations to political parties exist. We combine data from …

This book argues that to fully grasp the decision-making of politicians and political actors in
developing countries, we must first understand how politicians finance their campaigns for …