Aiding Elections? Foreign Aid and Donor-Country Election Cycles

Michael Batu and Darren Larue ()
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Darren Larue: Department of Economics, University of Windsor

No 1902, Working Papers from University of Windsor, Department of Economics

Abstract: We provide empirical evidence for a causal donor election cycle effect on some types of foreign aid. Our identification strategy exploits the variation in foreign aid for donors with fixed election dates, making elections clearly exogenous.

Keywords: Foreign aid; elections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 F35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2019-07
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