We document that support for the ruling party (“partisanship”) increases the take-up of government programs in which participation is costly. The take-up rates of a large-scale Indian loan-guarantee program, Mudra loans, diverge across low- and high-partisanship electoral districts but only mont...
Keywords:
Heterogeneous Beliefs, Political Finance, Government Spending, Loans, Fiscal Policy, Government Programs, Small Businesses, Media Economics, Information Economics