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Title: | Voters' Responsiveness to public employment policies |
Author: | Curto Grau, Marta |
Keywords: | Partits polítics Eleccions Programes electorals Political parties Elections Political party platforms |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Abstract: | This paper examines the electoral rewards for the distribution of public employment. We focus on the Spanish Plan for Rural Employment, a public jobs program introduced by the central government in two lagging regions. We evaluate voters' responsiveness to this policy using municipal-level electoral data and employ an estimator that combines difference-in-differences with propensity score matching. The main findings are that the program lead to an increase in the vote share for the ruling party in the treated municipalities. This effect is very persistent over the years, and it is unlikely to be explained by turnout buying |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-016-0388-6 |
It is part of: | Public Choice, 2017, vol. 170, num. 1, p. 143-169 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/122321 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-016-0388-6 |
ISSN: | 0048-5829 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Història Econòmica, Institucions, Política i Economia Mundial) |
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