One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Hometown Favoritism in an Authoritarian Regime

Quoc-Anh Do; Kieu-Trang Nguyen; Anh N. Tran (2017) · American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-392", tranche="tranche150")

Quoc-Anh Do; Kieu-Trang Nguyen; Anh N. Tran (2017). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Table 2.

Template assessment

The source PowerCapital treatment takes values 0 through 7, measuring cumulative political connections. The original coefficient reproduces in the source capture, but interpreting this multivalued exposure as binary adoption would change the estimand.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.

The source regression was re-estimated on 1,237 observations before this assessment.