Nguyen, Kieu-Trang; Do, Quoc-Anh; Tran, Anh - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2012
This paper studies nepotism by government officials in an authoritarian regime. We collect a unique dataset of political promotions of officials in Vietnam and estimate their impact on public infrastructure in their hometowns. We find strong positive effects on several outcomes, some with lags,...
