One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Hometown Infrastructure and Nepotism in an Autocracy

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: NGUYEN, Kieu-Trang, DO, Quoc-Anh, TRAN, Anh
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• الموضوعات: nepotism; infrastructure construction; official’s hometown; political connection; political promotion; social preference; directed altruism.; Asian Studies; Political Economy
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1321; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2320/viewcontent/Nguyen_Do_Tran_Mandarin_Nov11.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

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, incl...