Faye, Michael; Niehaus, Paul - In: American Economic Review 102 (2012) 7, pp. 3516-30
Researchers have scrutinized foreign aid's effects on poverty and growth, but anecdotal evidence suggests that donors … often use aid for other ends. We test whether donors use bilateral aid to influence elections in developing countries. We … find that recipient country administrations closely aligned with a donor receive more aid during election years, while …