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CREATED:20180914T091222
SUMMARY:Bruno Caprettini - University of Zurich
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-
 family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">The Electoral Impact of Wealth Redistribut
 ion. Evidence from Land Reform in Italy</span></strong><span style="font-si
 ze: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> (joint with Lorenzo Casabu
 ri and Miriam Venturini )</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt
 ; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Abstract:</span></strong></p><p sty
 le="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calib
 ri','sans-serif';">We study the long-term <span class="gmail-il">impact</sp
 an> of land redistribution on voting. We focus on the 1951 Italian land ref
 orm: an extensive program that expropriated estates of large landowners and
  redistributed their land among poor rural workers. We identify the causal 
 effect of the reform on voting with a spatial regression discontinuity desi
 gn: We exploit the fact that the reform affected only selected areas of Ita
 ly, and compare changes in voting behavior of municipalities on the two sid
 es of the border of the reform area. The Christian Democrats promoted the r
 eform: after 1951 they gain 4% of the votes in municipalities that redistri
 buted land. The effect persists for over 40 years, and survives the fall of
  the Christian Democratic party in 1994.</span></p>
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