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Voters' Responsiveness to public employment policies

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-016-0388-6

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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

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Partits polítics, Eleccions, Programes electorals

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Political parties, Elections, Political party platforms

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CURTO GRAU, Marta. Voters' Responsiveness to public employment policies. Public Choice. 2017. Vol. 170, num. 1, pags. 143-169. ISSN 0048-5829. [consulted: 11 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/122321

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