The Political Benefits of the Monoculture: Estimating Political manipulation in the Market Facilitation Program

• In Event: Subnational Actors in IPE

Brief Overview

We uses county and crop-level administrative data to model undistorted fund allocations. We then evaluate the extent to which the Trump administration was able to target various constituencies with agricultural subsidies.

Authors

• Robert Gulotty, The University of Chicago

• Anton Strezhnev, Columbia University