Regional Favoritism
Regional Favoritism
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DOI：
10.1093/qje/qju004
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发表时间：
2014-05-01
影响因子：
13.7
通讯作者：
Raschky, Paul A.
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作者：
Hodler, Roland;Raschky, Paul A.
我们通过在大量不同的国家样本中系统地研究区域偏袒，并采用一种广泛的措施来捕捉许多不同政策的总分配效应，从而补充了关于分配政治的文献。特别是，我们使用了夜间灯光强度的卫星数据和有关各国政治领导人出生地的信息。从1992年到2009年，我们对来自126个国家的38,427个次国家地区进行了年度观察，我们发现次国家地区作为现任政治领导人的出生地区，夜间灯光更强烈。我们认为，这一发现为地区偏爱提供了证据。我们探讨了区域偏袒的动态和地理范围，并表明区域偏袒在政治制度薄弱和公民受教育程度低的国家最为普遍。此外，外国援助流入和石油租金倾向于在体制薄弱的国家助长地区偏袒，而在其他地方则不然。JEL代码：D72， R11。
We complement the literature on distributive politics by taking a systematic look at regional favoritism in a large and diverse sample of countries and by employing a broad measure that captures the aggregate distributive effect of many different policies. In particular, we use satellite data on nighttime light intensity and information about the birthplaces of the countries' political leaders. In our panel of 38,427 subnational regions from 126 countries with yearly observations from 1992 to 2009, we find that subnational regions have more intense nighttime light when being the birth region of the current political leader. We argue that this finding provides evidence for regional favoritism. We explore the dynamics and the geographical extent of regional favoritism and show that regional favoritism is most prevalent in countries with weak political institutions and poorly educated citizens. Furthermore, foreign aid inflows and oil rents tend to fuel regional favoritism in weakly institutionalized countries, but not elsewhere. JEL Codes: D72, R11.