Replication data for: The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Robin Burgess; Remi Jedwab; Edward Miguel; Ameet Morjaria; Gerard Padró i Miquel
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Project Citation:
Burgess, Robin, Jedwab, Remi, Miguel, Edward, Morjaria, Ameet, and Padró i Miquel, Gerard. Replication data for: The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112942V1
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Summary:
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Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model, it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy under the same president constrains or exacerbates ethnic favoritism. Across the post-independence period, we find strong evidence of ethnic favoritism: districts that share the ethnicity of the president receive twice as much expenditure on roads and have five times the length of paved roads built. This favoritism disappears during periods of democracy. (JEL D72, H54, J15, O15, O17, O22, R42)
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JEL Classification:
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D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H54 National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
O22 Project Analysis
R42 Transportation Economics: Government and Private Investment Analysis; Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H54 National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
O22 Project Analysis
R42 Transportation Economics: Government and Private Investment Analysis; Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning
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