Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador

This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province level electoral results, the authors test a simple model of p...

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Main Authors:	Araujo, M. Caridad, Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Lanjouw, Peter, Özler, Berk
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO SERVICES AGRICULTURE ANTI-POVERTY BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY ASSESSMENTS CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CORRUPTION DECENTRALIZATION DEMAND-DRIVEN APPROACH DEMOCRACY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC STATUS EQUILIBRIUM ESTIMATES OF POVERTY FOOD FOR EDUCATION GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT HIGHER INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVELS INCOME TRANSFERS INDICATOR OF POVERTY INEQUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM IRRIGATION LAND INEQUALITY LARGE POPULATIONS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LORENZ CURVE MACROECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT NATIONAL LEVEL NGO NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS NUTRITION PARTICIPATORY POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL POWER POLITICAL PROCESS POLITICAL SUPPORT POOR POOR AGENTS POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR INDIVIDUALS POOR PEOPLE POPULATION CENSUS POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY MAP POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY REDUCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTION PROGRESS PROJECT MONITORING PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC SPENDING RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESPECT RICHER PEOPLE RURAL RURAL ECONOMY RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY RATES RURAL SECTOR SANITATION SCHOOL BUILDINGS SOCIAL FUND PROJECTS SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL WELFARE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS TARGETING URBAN AREAS UTILITY FUNCTION VALUATION VOTERS WEALTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/08/7014478/local-inequality-project-choice-theory-evidence-ecuador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9289

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spelling	okr-10986-92892021-04-23T14:02:41Z Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador Araujo, M. Caridad Ferreira, Francisco H.G. Lanjouw, Peter Özler, Berk ACCESS TO SERVICES AGRICULTURE ANTI-POVERTY BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY ASSESSMENTS CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CORRUPTION DECENTRALIZATION DEMAND-DRIVEN APPROACH DEMOCRACY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC STATUS EQUILIBRIUM ESTIMATES OF POVERTY FOOD FOR EDUCATION GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT HIGHER INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVELS INCOME TRANSFERS INDICATOR OF POVERTY INEQUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM IRRIGATION LAND INEQUALITY LARGE POPULATIONS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LORENZ CURVE MACROECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT NATIONAL LEVEL NGO NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS NUTRITION PARTICIPATORY POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL POWER POLITICAL PROCESS POLITICAL SUPPORT POOR POOR AGENTS POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR INDIVIDUALS POOR PEOPLE POPULATION CENSUS POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY MAP POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY REDUCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTION PROGRESS PROJECT MONITORING PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC SPENDING RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESPECT RICHER PEOPLE RURAL RURAL ECONOMY RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY RATES RURAL SECTOR SANITATION SCHOOL BUILDINGS SOCIAL FUND PROJECTS SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL WELFARE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS TARGETING URBAN AREAS UTILITY FUNCTION VALUATION VOTERS WEALTH This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province level electoral results, the authors test a simple model of project choice when local political power is unequally distributed. In accordance with the predictions of the model, poorer villages are more likely to receive projects that provide excludable (private) goods to the poor, such as latrines. Controlling for poverty, more unequal communities are less likely to receive such projects. Consistent with the hypothesis of elite capture, these results are sensitive to the specific measure of inequality used in the empirical analysis, and are strongest for expenditure shares at the top of the distribution. 2012-06-26T20:41:47Z 2012-06-26T20:41:47Z 2006-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/08/7014478/local-inequality-project-choice-theory-evidence-ecuador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9289 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3997 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Ecuador
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topic	ACCESS TO SERVICES AGRICULTURE ANTI-POVERTY BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY ASSESSMENTS CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CORRUPTION DECENTRALIZATION DEMAND-DRIVEN APPROACH DEMOCRACY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC STATUS EQUILIBRIUM ESTIMATES OF POVERTY FOOD FOR EDUCATION GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT HIGHER INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVELS INCOME TRANSFERS INDICATOR OF POVERTY INEQUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM IRRIGATION LAND INEQUALITY LARGE POPULATIONS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LORENZ CURVE MACROECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT NATIONAL LEVEL NGO NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS NUTRITION PARTICIPATORY POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL POWER POLITICAL PROCESS POLITICAL SUPPORT POOR POOR AGENTS POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR INDIVIDUALS POOR PEOPLE POPULATION CENSUS POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY MAP POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY REDUCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTION PROGRESS PROJECT MONITORING PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC SPENDING RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESPECT RICHER PEOPLE RURAL RURAL ECONOMY RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY RATES RURAL SECTOR SANITATION SCHOOL BUILDINGS SOCIAL FUND PROJECTS SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL WELFARE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS TARGETING URBAN AREAS UTILITY FUNCTION VALUATION VOTERS WEALTH
spellingShingle	ACCESS TO SERVICES AGRICULTURE ANTI-POVERTY BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY ASSESSMENTS CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY GROUPS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CORRUPTION DECENTRALIZATION DEMAND-DRIVEN APPROACH DEMOCRACY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC STATUS EQUILIBRIUM ESTIMATES OF POVERTY FOOD FOR EDUCATION GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT HIGHER INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVELS INCOME TRANSFERS INDICATOR OF POVERTY INEQUALITY INFORMATION SYSTEM IRRIGATION LAND INEQUALITY LARGE POPULATIONS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LORENZ CURVE MACROECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT NATIONAL LEVEL NGO NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS NUTRITION PARTICIPATORY POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL POWER POLITICAL PROCESS POLITICAL SUPPORT POOR POOR AGENTS POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR INDIVIDUALS POOR PEOPLE POPULATION CENSUS POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY MAP POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY REDUCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTION PROGRESS PROJECT MONITORING PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC SPENDING RESOURCE ALLOCATION RESPECT RICHER PEOPLE RURAL RURAL ECONOMY RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY RATES RURAL SECTOR SANITATION SCHOOL BUILDINGS SOCIAL FUND PROJECTS SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL WELFARE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS TARGETING URBAN AREAS UTILITY FUNCTION VALUATION VOTERS WEALTH Araujo, M. Caridad Ferreira, Francisco H.G. Lanjouw, Peter Özler, Berk Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador
geographic_facet	Latin America & Caribbean Ecuador
relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3997
description	This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund project administration, and province level electoral results, the authors test a simple model of project choice when local political power is unequally distributed. In accordance with the predictions of the model, poorer villages are more likely to receive projects that provide excludable (private) goods to the poor, such as latrines. Controlling for poverty, more unequal communities are less likely to receive such projects. Consistent with the hypothesis of elite capture, these results are sensitive to the specific measure of inequality used in the empirical analysis, and are strongest for expenditure shares at the top of the distribution.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Araujo, M. Caridad Ferreira, Francisco H.G. Lanjouw, Peter Özler, Berk
author_facet	Araujo, M. Caridad Ferreira, Francisco H.G. Lanjouw, Peter Özler, Berk
author_sort	Araujo, M. Caridad
title	Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador
title_short	Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador
title_full	Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador
title_fullStr	Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador
title_full_unstemmed	Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador
title_sort	local inequality and project choice: theory and evidence from ecuador
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/08/7014478/local-inequality-project-choice-theory-evidence-ecuador http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9289
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Local Inequality and Project Choice: Theory and Evidence from Ecuador

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