Biting The Hand That Feeds You: The Effect Of Past Institutions On Foreign Aid Outcomes in Central Europe

• In Event: Economic Development in Transitional & Developing Countries

Brief Overview

I propose that foreign aid exaggerates economic and political divergences initially driven by empire legacies. A spatial regression discontinuity model and a dataset of EU economic aid, economic production, and voting patterns from Poland is used.

Author

• Kevin Aslett, New York University