The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya.' Unpublished manuscript
| Title: | The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya.' Unpublished manuscript |
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| Authors: | Robin Burgess; Remi Jedwaby; Edward Miguelz; Ameet Morjariax; Gerard Padró Miquel; Alberto Alesina; Tim Besley; Oriana B; Bronwen Burgess; Konrad Burchardi; Denis Cogneau; Taryn Dinkelman; Ruben Durante; Eliana La Ferrara; Greg Fischer; Paul Gertler; James Habyarimana; Charles Hornsby; Asim Khwaja; Michael Kremer; Guy Michaels; Stelios Michalopoulos; Suresh Naidu; Benjamin Olken; Torsten Persson |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://home.gwu.edu/~jedwab/roads140724.pdf. |
| Publication Year: | 2013 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Description: | Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quanti cation of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road build-ing 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 nd strong evidence of ethnic favoritism: districts that share the ethnicity of the president receive twice as much expenditure on roads and have ve times the length of paved roads built. This favoritism disappears during periods of democracy. |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.465.3362; http://home.gwu.edu/~jedwab/roads140724.pdf |
| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.465.3362; http://home.gwu.edu/~jedwab/roads140724.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.B0B49588 |
| Database: | BASE |