Government Transfers and Votes for State Intervention
研究了意大利20世纪下半叶的区域政策，发现获得政府转移支付的地区在政策结束数十年后，更倾向于投票支持主张更多政府干预的政党，而经济表现差异很小。
Government transfers might have long-lasting consequences on electoral outcomes. We study a regional policy implemented in Italy over the second half of the twentieth century and leverage variation in transfers to show that parties promoting more state intervention in the economy performed better in the targeted areas relative to places that were not subsidized, decades after the end of the policy. This effect does not seem to mirror long-term differences in the economic performance of treated and control areas, which were small, nor other attitudes within the electorate.