@techreport{NBERw17411,
 title = "Vote-Buying and Reciprocity",
 author = "Frederico Finan and Laura A. Schechter",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "17411",
 year = "2011",
 month = "September",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w17411",
 abstract = {While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money engenders feelings of obligation. Combining survey data on vote-buying with an experiment-based measure of reciprocity, we show that politicians target reciprocal individuals. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of social preferences in determining political behavior.},
}