The political economy of public goods: Some evidence from India

By Abhijit Banerjee, R. Somanathan. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Caste as an Impediment to Trade (2011, methodology): “…prevent collective action failures.4 Previous empirical work particular to India has demonstrated that ethno-linguistic fragmentation, applied to caste and religious divisions, negatively correlates with access to public goods (Banerjee and Somanathan 2004, Banerjee, Iyer, and Somanathan 2005).”
Clientelism in Indian Villages (2015, background): “[4] Acemoglu, Daron, Suresh Naidu, Pascual Restrepo and James A.”
Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India (2017, result): “57 These findings are consistent with other work on India, which finds that citizen mobilization and national political agendas have played the dominant role in determining which regions gained public goods (Banerjee, Iyer, and Somanathan 2005; Banerjee and Somanathan 2007).”
The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades (2008, unknown): “As well, Alesina, Baquir, and Easterly (1999), Miguel and Gugerty (2005), and Banerjee and Somanathan (2006) ﬁnd that ethnic fractionalization reduces the provision of public goods, such as education, health facilities, access to water, and transportation infrastructure, all of which are important…”
Does Access to Formal Agricultural Credit Depend on Caste (2013, unknown): “The second is through the effect of group-identity on government policy and the provision of services such as public goods (Banerjee et al. 2005; Banerjee & Somanathan 2007).”
Distributive Politics Around the World (2013, background): “…representing lower-caste voters direct larger fractions of government spending to services that will specifically benefit these voters (Teitelbaum & Thachil 2010) and that politically mobilized lower-caste groups gain more than their politically quiescent counterparts (Banerjee & Somanathan 2007).”
Learning levels and gaps in Pakistan (2006, background): “Recent research by Banerjee and Somanathan (2005) and Pandey (2005) points to a political economy– based explanation, whereby the potential for participation by the poor and the low caste, who are the main users of public schools, is lower in districts where there is greater concentration of power i”
Indigenous Peoples, Poverty, and Development (2012, background): “Banerjee and Somanathan (2007) show for instance that between 1971 and 1991, fewer education and health facilities were available in parliamentary constituencies with Scheduled Tribe concentrations.”
The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: New Evidence from South Africa (2011, result): “This lack of strong evidence for project placement in richer areas and strong predictive power of two of the three cost variables is consistent with the overarching socio-political motivation 16 for the roll-out.”
Caste and the Indian Economy (2019, unknown): “Yik = β0 + β1MLDk + β2MPROPk + β3MLDk ·MPROPk + ψZik + γZk + ik, (15)”
Collective Action and Community Development: Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural India (2013, background): “ST members, who are outside traditional caste structures, are more economically marginalized than SC/OBC groups that are considered at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy (Banerjee and Somanathan 2007).”
The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java (2019, unknown): “Speciﬁcation choices are inherent in an RD design, and we document that results are robust to alternative choices of: (1) RD bandwidth, (2) RD polynomial, (3) inclusion of additional controls, are provided in Supplementary Appendices V through AF.”