This paper combines local election results and geo-referenced road construction data over 1993-2012 to investigate political bias in road infrastructure investment in a democratic setting, focusing on the case of Mexico. Using a regression discontinuity design, the paper finds strong evidence of partisan allocation of federally-funded highways to municipalities that voted for the president's party in legislative races, nearly doubling the stock of...
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2019/01/17
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS8710
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2019/01/17
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Disclosed
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Highway Politics in a Divided Government : Evidence from Mexico
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Municipalities