Winning or buying hearts and minds?: Cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan

Yashodhan Ghorpade and Patricia Justino

No wp-2019-91, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally exogenous eligibility cut-off of the flagship Benazir Income Support Programme to estimate causal effects. The main results show evidence of improved satisfaction with the government among beneficiaries of the programme. The paper discusses what potential mechanisms may explain this result and finds no evidence of changes in attitudes being associated with improvements in state capacity or better economic and security prospects.

Keywords: Social protection; Political attitudes; Cash transfers; Pakistan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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