How does welfare state expansion reconfigure political coalitions? Traditional accounts of the welfare state in advanced industrial economies emphasize the tendency for policy “insiders” -- those already incorporated in social insurance systems -- to resist further expansions since this...

This paper investigates the extent to which the election of Evo Morales and the MAS party is associated with a redistribution of economic resources in favor of indigenous populations in Bolivia. We employ household surveys over the period 2000-2013 and a difference-in-differences framework to...