Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
By A. de Janvry, Frederico Finan, E. Sadoulet. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012
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Abstract This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8 percentage points, the program's impact was 36% larger in municipalities governed by mayors who faced reelection possibilities compared to those with lame-duck mayors. First-term mayors with good program performance were much more likely to be reelected. These mayors adopted program implementation practices that were not only more transparent but also associated with better program outcomes.
Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science
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- How Can Safety Nets Contribute to Economic Growth? (2013, methodology): “This view has been tested in the context of Bolsa Escola, a transfer program in Brazil (now absorbed into a successor). de Janvry, Finan, and Sadoulet (2012) found that mayors with better performance in targeting had a higher likelihood of reelection.”
- Do land revenue windfalls create a political resource curse? Evidence from China ☆ (2016, background): “…that reelection incentives for politicians under democracy have frequently led to signaling efforts in the respects of war making (Hess and Orphanides, 1995), public goods provision (Caselli and Michaels, 2013; De Janvry et al., 2012) and more generally economic performance (Besley et al., 2010).”