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 2012
• الموضوعات: nepotism; infrastructure construction; official’s hometown; political connection; political promotion; social preference; directed altruism.; Growth and Development; Political Science; Public Economics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1328; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2327/viewcontent/Nguyen_Do_Tran_Mandarin_Nov11_V2.pdf

Duplicate record, see https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1383. 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. W...