Voters’ responsiveness to public employment policies

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• 作者：Marta Curto-Grau
• 关键词：Redistribution ; Public employment ; Electoral rewards ; Difference ; in ; differences matching estimator
• 刊名：Public Choice
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：170
• 期：1-2
• 页码：143-169
• 全文大小：840 KB
• 刊物类别：Business and Economics
• 刊物主题：Economics
  Public Finance and Economics
  Political Science
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7101
• 卷排序：170

文摘

This paper examines the electoral rewards for the distribution of public employment. We focus on the Spanish Plan for Rural Employment, a public jobs program introduced by the central government in two lagging regions. We evaluate voters’ responsiveness to this policy using municipal-level electoral data and employ an estimator that combines difference-in-differences with propensity score matching. The main findings are that the program lead to an increase in the vote share for the ruling party in the treated municipalities. This effect is very persistent over the years, and it is unlikely to be explained by turnout buying.