Yasmine Bekkouche's research while affiliated with University of Oxford and other places
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Publications (4)
We combined information on daily rainfall at school locations and standardized test scores to study how learning outcomes at primary schools are affected by precipitation during school days in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our results suggest that student test scores are lower in schools that are exposed to more rainy days during the academic year. Students...
What is the impact of campaign spending on votes? Does it vary across election types, political parties or electoral settings? Estimating these effects requires comprehensive data on spending across candidates, parties and elections, as well as identification strategies that handle the endogenous and strategic nature of campaign spending in multipa...
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... As well as the advantages potentially gained by donors, donations may favour one party over another. Literature has some contrasting results, but recent research supports the claim that greater fundraising has a positive impact on electoral success (Samuels, 2001;Griffiths, Wood and Chen, 2020;Schuster, 2020;Cagé and Dewitte, 2021;Bekkouche, Cagé and Dewitte, 2022). In September 2022, the Economist surveyed recent US data showing that better-thanaverage fundraising is a strong predictor of better-than-average electoral success, concluding: 'Money still matters.' ...
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... campaign spending) on candidates' vote shares within the same constituency is complicated by the fact that these shares are highly correlated (they need to sum up to 1). In our article, we rely on Bekkouche et al. (2022) and solve this issue by adapting a discrete choice model (Conditional Logit) to the use of aggregate voting data. In these models, regression coefficients are interpreted as relative probabilities of choosing each alternative compared to a baseline category. ...
Reference: When Does Money Matter for Elections?
... Campaign contributions are viewed as essential for candidates to win elections. Their influence on the set of candidates that run and win elections has been documented recently (e.g., Barber, 2016b;Bekkouche and Cagé, 2018). Moreover, donors prefer to give to ideologically proximate candidates on average such that campaign contribution patterns reveal the political ideology of donors (e.g., Bonica, 2014). ...
