No Kin In The Game: Moral Hazard and War in the U.S. Congress

We thank Motaz Al-Chanati, Jenna Anders, Victor Brechenmacher, Kian Ivey, Vanessa Labrador, Andrew Li, and 36 students from the Fall 2016 Econ 115 class at Yale for their excellent research assistance. We are also grateful to Ceren Baysan, Ray Fisman, Claudia Goldin, Greg Huber, Kelsey Jack, Daniel Keniston, Michael Kremer, Mushfiq Mobarak, Nathan Nunn, Cormac O’Dea, Daniel Posner, Nicholas Ryan, Jesse Shapiro, James Thomas, Nico Voigtlaender, Ebonya Washington, and Fabrizio Zilibotti; conference participants at BIARI (Brown University), NEUDC (Tufts University), and HiCN (PSE); and seminar participants at Yale University, Williams College, Tufts University, University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Nova University Lisbon, Queens University Belfast, University of Southern California, Loyola Marymount University and Harvard University for helpful comments and conversations. Three anonymous referees provided insightful suggestions that greatly improved this article. All errors are ours. This article was edited by Melissa Dell, to whom we are grateful for her guidance and direction. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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