On the political economy of allocation of agricultural disaster relief payments: application to Taiwan
研究了2009年台风莫拉克后台湾农业灾害救济金分配中政治因素的影响，发现执政党更倾向于向支持自己的乡镇发放更多救济金。
This paper examines the importance of political factors in the allocation of agricultural disaster payments as a result of Typhoon Morakot that ravaged Taiwan in 2009. The instrumental variable model was estimated using a unique data set that combines a national administrative profile of the 607,704 recipients of disaster relief payments and the matched weather and geographic information. Results show that the political factor significantly determined the level of disaster relief payments. The incumbent government paid more to the farms located in towns which voted for the incumbent party to a greater extent than they did for the opposition party.