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Government Transfers and Votes for State Intervention

Published:2024-08-01 Issue:3 Volume:16 Page:451-480
ISSN:1945-7731
Container-title:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
language:en
Short-container-title:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Author:

Albanese Giuseppe¹,de Blasio Guido¹,Incoronato Lorenzo²

Affiliation:

1. Bank of Italy (email: )

2. Department of Economics, University College London and CReAM (email: )

Abstract

Government transfers might have long-lasting consequences on electoral outcomes. We study a regional policy implemented in Italy over the second half of the twentieth century and leverage variation in transfers to show that parties promoting more state intervention in the economy performed better in the targeted areas relative to places that were not subsidized, decades after the end of the policy. This effect does not seem to mirror long-term differences in the economic performance of treated and control areas, which were small, nor other attitudes within the electorate. (JEL D72, H76, I38, N34, N44, R53)

Publisher

American Economic Association

Link

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/pol.20220452

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