The Politics of Public Good Provision: Evidence from Indian Local Governments∗
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This paper uses village and household survey data from South India to examine how political geography and politician identity impacts on public good provision. We provide evidence that the nature of this relationship varies by type of public goods. For high spill-over public goods residential proximity to elected representative matters. In contrast, for low spill-over public goods sharing the politician’s group identity is what matters.
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