Political meddling in social assistance programme: Panel data evidence from India

Vidhya Unnikrishnan; Subhasish Dey

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Political meddling in social assistance programme: Panel data evidence from India

Vidhya Unnikrishnan, Subhasish Dey

Global Development Institute

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This paper examines the role of the horizontal and vertical network in aiding eligible individuals to receive Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme. A vertical network refers to a household's political connection, and a horizontal network denotes the interconnectedness with others in the society. We have used data from all India representative individual level (2004–2005 and 2011–2012) panel data released by the India Human Development Survey. Our estimated results from the individual level fixed effects model suggest that programme eligible individuals with vertical networks have a higher probability of receiving the programme. Sub-sample heterogeneities are detailed in the paper.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of International Development
DOIs	https://doi.org/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jid.3730
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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elite, horizontal network, IGNOAPS, political network

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