Arbeitspapier

Favoritism by the governing elite

In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We manually collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this information with extended nighttime luminosity and novel population data over the period from 1992 to 2016, we utilize a staggered difference-in-differences estimator and find that birthplaces of ministers globally emit on average roughly 9 % more nightlight. This result is predominantly attributable to the African sub-sample. We find no evidence that the measured effect is driven by, or induces, migration to the home regions of ministers. The size of our data set lets us investigate heterogeneities along a number of dimensions: political power, ministerial portfolio, and the institutional setting.

ISBN
978-3-96973-198-7
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 1029

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
State and Local Budget and Expenditures
Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism; Secession
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Thema
Favoritism
elite capture
spatiality
luminosity
population
democracy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Asatryan, Zareh
Baskaran, Thushyanthan
Birkholz, Carlo
Hufschmidt, Patrick
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
(wo)
Essen
(wann)
2023

DOI
doi:10.4419/96973198
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Asatryan, Zareh
  • Baskaran, Thushyanthan
  • Birkholz, Carlo
  • Hufschmidt, Patrick
  • RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

Entstanden

  • 2023

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