Elections on Fire: The Effects of Fires on Political Behavior in Brazil

• In Event: Electoral Behavior

Brief Overview

By exploiting an arguably exogenous variation in wildfires, we show that wildfires increase support for green candidates in Brazil and that this effect is moderated by local population’s reliance on the agriculture and livestock sectors.

Authors

• Silvia Pianta, European University Institute

• Paula Rettl, Bocconi University