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American Economic Review· 2015Q1

The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya

Robin Burgess, Rémi Jedwab, Edward Miguel, Ameet Morjaria et al.

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Democracy significantly reduces ethnic favoritism in Kenya, with districts sharing the president's ethnicity receiving half the road expenditure and one-fifth the paved roads during autocratic periods.

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Field: Demography

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