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Political Aid Cycles
Abstract
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 bilateral aid to influence elections in developing countries. We find that recipient country administrations closely aligned with a donor receive more aid during election years, while those less aligned receive less. Consistent with our interpretation, this effect holds only in competitive elections, is absent in US aid flows to non-government entities, and is driven by bilateral alignment rather than incumbent characteristics.
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“In regression Equation (2), the dependent variable is the amount of donations received by receiver r from donor d in year t, and the explanatory variables are donor × receiver fixed effects, an indicator for whether there is an election in country r in year t, a measure of alignment between the ruling political parties in countries r and d at t , and the interaction of the election indicator and”
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“The stable groups assumption is presumably not satisfied: it is unlikely that there are donor-receiver pairs that are perfectly unaligned.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Faye, M., & Niehaus, P.
- Affiliations
- 128 East 62nd Street, New York, NY.
- University of California San Diego (US)
- ORCID
- Niehaus, Paul
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2012-12-01
- Volume
- 102
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 3516-3530
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2040194440
- Cited by
- 160
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 69.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Economic Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Development › International Development and Aid
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Keywords
- foreign aid, election year, bilateral aid, electoral competition, political economy of aid, developing countries
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