in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their … lower GDP growth per year on average. These estimated costs increase for candidates with serious accusations, multiple …

in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their … lower GDP growth per year on average. These estimated costs increase for candidates with serious accusations, multiple …

in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their … lower GDP growth per year on average. These estimated costs increase for candidates with serious accusations, multiple …

in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their … lower GDP growth per year on average. These estimated costs increase for candidates with serious accusations, multiple …

This document is the online appendix to the paper "Defector Politicians and Economic Growth: Evidence from India …

(RD) model to estimate the impact of electing political defectors to Indian state legislatures on economic growth (proxied … by night-light growth) in their electoral constituencies. I estimate that the election of a defector from the governing … party causes a 0.35-0.44 percentage point (5.5-6.9%) increase in GDP growth in their constituency. Furthermore, I find …

in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent views, the implications of their … lower GDP growth per year on average. These estimated costs increase for candidates with serious accusations, multiple …

–2004 to examine how this enactment affected economic growth. Furthermore, this paper explores how generalized trust is … associated with the effect of information disclosure on economic growth. The Dynamic Panel model is used to control for … a positive effect on GDP growth; and (2) generalized trust enhances this effect on GDP growth. This implies that social …