Unconditional cash transfers & voter turnout.
We estimate the effect of unconditional cash transfers on voter turnout, leveraging a large‐scale natural experiment, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program, which has provided residents with a check of varying size 1 month before election day since 1982. We find that larger transfers caus...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 805 - 830 |
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