Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A. - 2010
To study whether foreign aid fuels personal, regional and ethnic favoritism, we use satellite data on nighttime light … from 1992 to 2005, we compare the effect of foreign aid on nighttime light across regions. We find that in countries with … born than in other regions. This finding suggests that a disproportionate share of foreign aid ends up in the leader …