Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique Alex Armand, Alexander Coutts, Pedro C. Vicente, Inês Vilela Abstract Natural resources can lead to the deterioration of public policies through corruption, as well as to civil conflict. Our paper tests this political resource curse through a large-scale field experiment following the dissemination of […]
BREAD Working Paper No. 567, October 2019
Voting for Quality? The Impact of School Performance Information on Electoral Outcomes Marina Dias, Claudio Ferraz Abstract We use data from polling stations and public primary schools to estimate the electoral effects of making school quality information available to voters. We exploit the introduction of a school-level accountability system in Brazil that provides, for the […]