北大国家发展研究院发展经济学Workshop讲座

 

制度变迁与地方经济发展：来自肯尼亚的证据

主讲人: Gerard Padro i Miquel

Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

 

 

讲座时间：2015年6月4日上午10:00-11:30

讲座地点：北京大学国家发展研究院512会议室

主持人：姚洋教授

英文摘要：

Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy under the same president constrains or exacerbates ethnic favoritism. Across the post-independence period, we find strong evidence of ethnic favoritism: districts that share the ethnicity of the president receive twice as much expenditure on roads and have five times the length of paved roads built. This favoritism disappears during periods of democracy.