This article examines whether an increase in political participation biased toward low-income voters - and concentrated in legislative elections - impacts federal representatives’ allocation of resources from the federal budget to Brazilian municipalities. We use a regression discontinuity...

This study provides estimates of the fiscal cost of a universal age pension in Sri Lanka. It challenges opponents of universal pensions who assert that such pensions are unaffordable, despite the fact that countries as diverse as New Zealand, Mauritius, Nepal, Namibia, Bolivia and Kosovo have...