Jha, Raghbendra; Nagarajan, Hari K.; Pradhan, Kailash C. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
This paper has the objective of showing that identity based voting will lead to improvements in household welfare … consumption growth is retarded if households do not engage in identity based voting. Using 3 stage least squares, we are able to … show that identity based voting results from the externalities derived from membership in social and information networks …