Rentier Individuals and the Political Consequences of Unconditional Cash Transfers

• In Event: Microfinance, Taxes, and Transfers

Brief Overview

Unearned income from large, repeated, unconditional cash transfers hinders incentives for political participation by reducing demands on government and interest in politics. Tested with a quasi-experiment of Alaska Native descendant dividends.

Author

• Paasha Mahdavi, University of California-Santa Barbara