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CREATED:20180914T091222
SUMMARY:Bruno Caprettini - University of Zurich
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:The Electoral Impact of Wealth Redistribution. Evidence from Land Reform in
  Italy (joint with Lorenzo Casaburi and Miriam Venturini )\n\n\nAbstract:\n
 We study the long-term impact of land redistribution on voting. We focus on
  the 1951 Italian land reform: an extensive program that expropriated estat
 es of large landowners and redistributed their land among poor rural worker
 s. We identify the causal effect of the reform on voting with a spatial reg
 ression discontinuity design: We exploit the fact that the reform affected 
 only selected areas of Italy, and compare changes in voting behavior of mun
 icipalities on the two sides of the border of the reform area. The Christia
 n Democrats promoted the reform: after 1951 they gain 4% of the votes in mu
 nicipalities that redistributed land. The effect persists for over 40 years
 , and survives the fall of the Christian Democratic party in 1994.\n
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DTSTART:20181115T163000Z
DTEND:20181115T180000Z
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