22. ANDERSON FREY ♂
Information acquired: 2025
ANDERSON FREY is an academic who published a paper in 2016 entitled The local political economy of conditional cash transfers in Brazil. ANDERSON FREY published this work as part of a team: Frey, Anderson. Here is a description of this work: Con,,itional cash transfers (CCT) are currently one of the most popular poverty reduction policies worldwide. Nevertheless, there is still limited evidence of their impact on the local political dynamics of developing nations plagued by corruption, clientelism, and vote buying. This thesis studies this issue using data from Brazil's Bolsa FamÃlia, the largest CCT program in the world. Abstract Chapter 2 proposes a theoretical mechanism to illustrate how a CCT program could affect local politics in such institutional setting, when local politicians cannot manipulate program eligibility. In a nutshell, when mayors are able to buy votes by diverting public resources into private payments to swing voters, a CCT program works as an income shock that reduces the voter's marginal utility coming from vote buying. Abstract Chapter 3 uses data from Brazil's Bolsa FamÃ.