| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21434 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21434 |
| Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention | |
| Raymond P. Guiteras; Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-08-10 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Comprehensive evaluation requires tracking indirect effects of interventions, such as politicians and constituents reacting to the arrival of a development program. We study political economy responses to a large scale intervention in Bangladesh, where 346 communities consisting of 16,600 households were randomly assigned to control, information or subsidy treatments to encourage investments in improved sanitation. In one intervention where the leaders’ role in program allocation was not clear to constituents, leaders react by spending more time in treatment areas, and treated constituents appear to attribute credit to their local leader for a randomly assigned program. In contrast, in another lottery where subsidy assignment is clearly and transparently random, the lottery winners do not attribute any extra credit to the politician relative to lottery losers. These reactions are consistent with a model in which constituents have imperfect information about leader ability. A third intervention returns to a random subset of treated households to inform them that the program was externally funded and randomly assigned. This simple, scalable information treatment eliminates the excess credit that leaders received in villages that received subsidies. These results suggest that while politicians may respond to try to take credit for development programs, it is not easy for them do so. Political accountability is not easily undermined by development aid. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Development ; Growth and Productivity ; Other ; Economic Systems ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21434 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579109 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Raymond P. Guiteras,Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak. Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention. 2015. |
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