The SHRUG is an open data platform describing multidimensional socioeconomic
development across 600,000 villages and towns in India. This paper presents three …

Politically-driven corruption is a pervasive challenge for development, but evidence of its
welfare effects are scarce. Using data from a major rural road construction programme in …

Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as
Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents, legislators in" patronage …

We leverage innovative spatial modeling techniques and data on the precise geo-locations
of more than 32,000 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) projects in Kenya to test …

In the study of electoral politics and political behavior in the developing world, India is often
considered to be an exemplar of the centrality of contingency in distributive politics, the role …

A key finding in the political economy literature is that political elites display partisan biases
when allocating public resources. While previous studies posit that such biases are driven …

Home price subsidies are common in low-and middle-income countries. How do they affect
an important input into local governance—namely, citizens' propensity to make everyday …

We argue that economic inequality harms social provision to the poor, but that higher
political competition can mitigate this effect. We test this hypothesis using a large …

Why do public works programs in developing democracies often experience implementation
failures at the local level? Building on the literature on political business cycles, our study …

In developing countries, partisanship is pervasive, but its motivations remain largely
unexplored. Whereas non-programmatic party–voter linkages dominate the political …