1 论文标题
Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China2 作者信息
Gerard Padro i Miquel, Nancy Qian, Yang Yao3 出处和链接（比如，NBER working paper No.11000）
NBER Working Paper No. 18633
Issued in December 2012
4 摘要
This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we proxy with religious fractionalization. We first document religious composition and the introduction of village-level elections for a nearly nationally representative sample of over two hundred villages. Then, we examine the interaction effect of heterogeneity and the introduction of elections on village-government provision of public goods. The interaction effect is negative. We interpret this as evidence that voter heterogeneity constrains the potential benefits of elections for public goods provision.