Data and Code for "Government Transfers and Votes for State Intervention"

Government transfers might have long-lasting consequences on electoral outcomes.<br>We study a regional policy implemented in Italy over the second half of the twentieth<br>century and leverage variation in transfers to show that parties promoting more state intervention in the economy performed better in the targeted areas relative to places<br>that were not subsidized, decades after the end of the policy. This effect does not seem<br>to mirror long-term differences in the economic performance of treated and control<br>areas, which were small, nor other attitudes within the electorate.