Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; Vigorito, Andrea - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (2011) 3, pp. 1-28
This paper estimates the impact of a large anti-poverty cash transfer program, the Uruguayan PANES, on political support for the government that implemented it. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a pretreatment eligibility score, we find that beneficiary households are 11 to...
