Drought-reliefs and partisanship
Boffa, Federico (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Cavalcanti, Francisco (Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
Fons-Rosen, Christian (University of California at Merced)
Piolatto, Amedeo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Imprint:	Barcelona: BSE Working Paper; 2022
Description:	24 pàg.
Abstract:	We analyse partisan biases in the allocation of central discretionary transfers in a federal country. We study drought aid-relief in Brazil, where presidential and municipal elections alternate every two years, to identify a novel pattern of distributive politics, determined by the sequence of central and local elections. In particular, we show that alignment advantage materialises only in the period before municipal elections, while it disappears in the period before presidential elections. Furthermore, we show that even before mayoral elections partisanship only counts for districts with intermediate levels of aridity, where being aligned causes an increase by a factor of almost two (equivalent to +18. 1 p. p. ) in the chances of receiving aid-relief. We rationalise this pattern in a model with office-motivated politicians and rational voters.
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación PGC2018-094348 Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad RYC-2016-19371 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000915-S
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Language:	Anglès
Series:	BSE working paper; 1337
Document:	Working paper ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Federalism ; Distributive Politics ; Partisan Alignment ; Presidential Elections ; Aridity ; Brazil
Published in:	BSE Barcelona School of Economics Working Papers, 2022

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