The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya

By Robin Burgess, R. Jedwab, Edward Miguel, A. Morjaria, G. P. Miquel. 2015

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Subfields: Demography, Development, Sociology and Political Science

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The Permanent Effects of Transportation Revolutions in Poor Countries: Evidence from Africa (2016, neutral): “Lastly, data on colonial budgets in French West Africa and Kenya was compiled by Huillery (2012) and Burgess et al. (2013).”
The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960–2010 (2020, positive): “1 degrees (≈ 7This is consistent with the literature documenting political motivations in the allocation of roads (Knight, 2004; Burgess et al., 2015; Blimpo et al., 2013). If roads are built in some areas because of their marginal political returns rather than their economic returns, they may be le”
Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India (2017, background): “In Kenya, more roads are built in places that share ethnicity with the president (Burgess et al. 2015), and in India, sugar mills with party-aligned chairmen pay higher prices (Sukhtankar 2012).”
Segregation, Ethnic Favoritism, and the Strategic Targeting of Local Public Goods (2018, background): “This approach is similar to Franck and Rainer (2012), who cluster on ethnic group-survey round, and Burgess et al. (2015), who cluster on district, the levels at which ethnic match is assigned in their respective studies.”
The Political Economy of Unfinished Development Projects: Corruption, Clientelism, or Collective Choice? (2017, methodology): “5 Burgess et al. (2015) use both an input-based measure of expenditure and an output-based measure of physical completion as alternative dependent variables, but do not investigate the discrepancy”
Rural Roads and Local Economic Development (2018, background): “…to raise the value of agricultural land (Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2016), increase agricultural trade and income (Donaldson, n.d.), reduce the risk of famine (Burgess and Donaldson, 2012), increase migration (Morten and Oliveira, 2017) and accelerate urban decentralization (Baum-Snow et al., 2017).”
Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance (2015, neutral): “The lack of robust evidence that the availability of natural resources is a dominant driver of aid is less surprising: Dreher and Fuchs (forthcoming) also do not find natural resources to play a significant role at the cross-country level.”
Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India (2018, background): “(2012) and Burgess et al. (2015) provide evidence of mistargeted construction projects in Vietnam and Kenya respectively, on account of nepotism and ethnic favoritism.”
Roads, exports and employment: Evidence from a developing country (2017, background): “…on: productivity (see Fernald, 1999); relative demand for skilled workers (see Michaels, 2008); suburbanization (see Baum-Snow, 2007); urban growth (see Duranton and Turner, 2012); counties' earnings and market access (see Chandra and Thompson, 2000 and Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2016, respectively).”
Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India (2021, background): “For example, Burgess et al. (2015) find strong evidence of ethnic favoritism in the provision of paved roads across the post-independence period in Kenya; districts that shared the same ethnicity as the president had double the amount of expenditure on roads, and five times the length of paved…”
CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT (2017, background): “Public investments often have a strong ethnic undertone [see, e.g., the study of road-building in Kenya by Burgess et al. (2015)].”
States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints☆ (2017, background): “22 Recent research investigating the causes of bureaucratic performance and infrastructure spending includes Rasul and Rogger (2016), Burgess et al. (2015).”
‘No county left behind?’ The distributional impact of high-speed rail upgrades in China (2016, neutral): “Burgess et al. (2013) find strong evidence of ethnic favoritism in road construction: districts in Kenya that share the ethnicity of the president receive twice as much expenditure on roads and have four times the length of paved roads built.”
Ethnic Voting and Accountability in Africa: A Choice Experiment in Uganda (2015, neutral): “21 bratton and Kimenyi 2008; burgess et al. 2013; franck and rainer 2012; Kramon and Posner 2014.”