Essays about: "Rickard Lunnerdal"

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  1. 1. Rain, Income Shocks and Voter Turnout: Evidence from India

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Rickard Lunnerdal; [2014]
    Keywords : voter turnout; income shocks; rainfall; India; political economy;

    Abstract : Exogenous rainfall variation is exploited to capture arguably causal effects of income shocks on voter turnout in Indian state assembly elections over the period 1959-1990. Using rainfall to measure income variation is motivated by rain-fed agriculture being the main income source for a majority of the rural Indian population. READ MORE