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Essays on the Political Economy of Development in South Asia.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Essays on the Political Economy of Development in South Asia./
作者:	Gulzar, Saad Ahmad.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (223 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-12A(E).
標題:	Political science. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355128475

Essays on the Political Economy of Development in South Asia.
Gulzar, Saad Ahmad.

Essays on the Political Economy of Development in South Asia. - 1 online resource (223 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

This three essay dissertation examines the political economy determinants of development in South Asia. It relies on extensive fieldwork and new data on government programs to understand how politics can be made to work better for citizen welfare in Pakistan and India.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355128475Subjects--Topical Terms:

558774
Political science.
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554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a In Chapter 1, I ask when do politicians prompt bureaucrats to provide effective services? Leveraging the uneven overlap of jurisdictions in India, we compare bureaucrats supervised by a single political principal with those supervised by multiple politicians. With an original dataset of nearly half a million villages, we find that implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the largest employment program in the world, is substantially better where bureaucrats answer to a single politician. Regression discontinuity estimates help increase confidence that this result is causal. Our findings suggest that politicians face strong incentives to motivate bureaucrats as long as they internalize the benefits from doing so. In contrast to a large literature on the deleterious effects of political interventions, our results show that political influence may be more favorable to development than is commonly assumed. This chapter is published in the American Political Science Review and is joint with Benjamin Pasquale.
520 $a Chapter 2 examines research on the benefits of political alignment that suggests that voters who elect governing party politicians are better off than those who elect other politicians. I examine this claim with a regression discontinuity design that isolates the effect of electing a governing party politician on an important publicly provided service in Pakistan: health. Consistent with existing research, governing party constituents receive a higher quantity of services: more experienced doctors are assigned to work in governing party areas. However, these doctors also report more connections with politicians and are significantly more absent from work. That is, a higher provision of healthcare is accompanied by impeded access and diminished quality in governing party areas. These findings contrast with the literature on political alignment by showing that alignment to the governing party affects voters' welfare ambiguously: higher quantity of services may come at the cost of lower quality..
520 $a In Chapter 3, I ask, what motivates people to seek political office? What role does the social context play in the candidacy decision? In a field experiment, we increase the salience of personal reasons for running for political office---such as gaining respect and status---or social reasons for running---such as the ability to help others. We do this by making appeals to a random subset of the community in one-on-one private meetings or in village-level public meetings. Our results show that, first, making any appeal to run greatly increases the probability of candidacy. Second, compared to a neutral private or public meeting, where personal or social reasons are not mentioned, highlighting social reasons to run increases candidacy, while making personal reasons salient reduces candidacy. Significantly, these effects are only observed when appeals are made in a public meeting, leading to the conclusion that the social dimensions of the candidacy decision are particularly important. This work is joint with Muhammad Yasir Khan.
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