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

• Main Authors: Nguyen, Kieu-Trang, DO, Quoc-Anh, Tran, Anh
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: nepotism; infrastructure construction; official’s hometown; political connection; political promotion; social preference; directed altruism.; Growth and Development; Political Science; Public Economics
• Online Access: 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...