Replication data for: One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Hometown Favoritism in an Authoritarian Regime

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Quoc-Anh Do; Kieu-Trang Nguyen; Anh N. Tran

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Project Citation:

Do, Quoc-Anh, Nguyen, Kieu-Trang, and Tran, Anh N. Replication data for: One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Hometown Favoritism in an Authoritarian Regime. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113594V1

Project Description

Summary: We study patronage politics in authoritarian Vietnam, using an exhaustive panel of ranking officials from 2000 to 2010 to estimate their promotions' impact on infrastructure in their hometowns of patrilineal ancestry. Native officials' promotions lead to a broad range of hometown infrastructure improvement. Hometown favoritism is pervasive across all ranks, even among officials without budget authority, except among elected legislators. Favors are narrowly targeted toward small communes that have no political power, and are strengthened with bad local governance and strong local family values. The evidence suggests a likely motive of social preferences for hometown.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
      H76 State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
      O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
      O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
      P25 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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