Araujo, M. Caridad; Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Lanjouw, Peter - In: Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008) 5-6, pp. 1022-1046
This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province-level electoral results, we test a simple model of...