recipient countries have not been addressed. This paper is the first to investigate the role of regional and ethnic favoritism …

recipient countries have not been addressed. This paper is the first to investigate the role of regional and ethnic favoritism …

We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the … range of policies. We find robust evidence for ethnic favoritism: the political leaders' ethnographic regions enjoy 10 …% higher nighttime light intensity. We further find that ethnic favoritism is a global rather than Sub-Saharan African …

We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the … range of policies. We find robust evidence for ethnic favoritism: the political leaders' ethnographic regions enjoy 10 …% higher nighttime light intensity. We further find that ethnic favoritism is a global rather than Sub-Saharan African …

We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the … range of policies. We find robust evidence for ethnic favoritism: the political leaders’ ethnographic regions enjoy 10 …% higher nighttime light intensity. We further find that ethnic favoritism is a global rather than Sub-Saharan African …