Browsing WORKING PAPERS by Author "Pellicer, Miquel"

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  • The demand side of clientelism: The role of client’s perceptions and values 
    Pellicer, Miquel; Wegner, Eva; Benstead, Lindsay; Kincaid, Harold; Lust, Ellen; Vasquez, Juanita (2014-11)
    Political science literature on clientelism has tended to focus primarily on the role of parties and brokers, leaving the demand side of clientelism - the choices of potential clients - relatively unexplored. This paper ...
  • The effect of non-personnel resources on educational outcomes: Evidence from South Africa 
    Pellicer, Miquel; Piraino, Patrizio (2015-04)
    Little credible evidence exists on the effect of material resources on school quality in developing countries. This paper studies the impact of non-personnel funding on educational outcomes exploiting the peculiar way in ...
  • Electoral Rules and Clientelistic Parties: A Regression Discontinuity Approach 
    Pellicer, Miquel; Wegner, Eva (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012)
    This paper studies the causal effect of electoral systems on the performance of clientelistic vs. programmatic parties. We argue that, contrary to majoritarian systems, proportional systems disfavor clientelistic parties ...
  • Estimating the effect of racial classification on labour market outcomes: A case study from Apartheid South Africa 
    Pellicer, Miquel; Ranchhod, Vimal (2020-02)
    What were the effects of being officially classified as White on labour market outcomes during apartheid in South Africa? South Africa's apartheid government implemented a comprehensive system of discrimination against ...
  • Inequality traps and human capital accumulation in South Africa 
    Pellicer, Miquel; Ranchhod, Vimal (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012)
    We consider the interaction between human capital accumulation and inequality in South Africa. We start by discussing three alternative theoretical frameworks that relate inequality and investment decisions in post-secondary ...
  • Inequality Traps in South Africa: An overview and research agenda 
    Pellicer, Miquel; Ranchhod, Vimal; Sarr, Mare; Wegner, Eva (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011-03)
    There has been considerable effort in ascertaining with confidence the trends in income inequality in South Africa. South Africa has traditionally been among the most unequal countries in the world and continues to be so. ...
  • Information, mobilization, and demand for redistribution: A survey experiment in South Africa 
    Pellicer, Miquel; Piraino, Patrizio; Wegner, Eva (2014-11)
    This paper presents a survey experiment in South Africa that focuses on the role of mobilization for demand for redistribution. Previous literature has found that providing information on inequality raises concerns about ...
  • Preferences for the scope of protests 
    Pellicer, Miquel; Wegner, Eva; De Juan, Alexander (2018-02)
    This paper studies a dimension of protest largely overlooked in the literature: protest scope, that is, whether protests seek large, structural, changes for a large share of the population or focus on small-scale improvements ...

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