期刊名称：Discussion Paper Series / Department of Economics, Monash University
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
出版社：Monash University
摘要：To study whether foreign aid fuels personal, regional and ethnic favoritism, we use satellite data on
nighttime light for any region in any aid-recipient country, and we determine for each year and each
country the region in which the current political leader was born. Having a panel with 22,850 regions in
91 aid recipient countries with yearly observations from 1992 to 2005, we compare the effect of foreign
aid on nighttime light across regions. We find that in countries with poor political institutions, this effect
is significantly higher in the region in which the current political leader was born than in other regions.
This finding suggests that a disproportionate share of foreign aid ends up in the leader's birth region, and
we argue that it supports the view that foreign aid fuels favoritism, broadly defined. We find no such
difference in aid-recipient countries with sound political institutions.
关键词：Foreign aid; Political leaders; Favoritism; Political institutions
