Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance
Andreas Fuchs and Hannes Öhler
Published in: The World Economy 44(3): 671-705, March 2021
Abstract
This paper compares the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000-2016 period. We construct a new database that offers information on the country in which the headquarters of private donors are located to test whether private aid tends to follow the humanitarian aid allocation pattern of the respective official donor. Our empirical results confirm that private humanitarian aid tends to “follow the flag.” This finding is robust against the inclusion of various fixed effects, estimating instrumental variables models, and disaggregating private humanitarian aid into corporate aid and NGO aid. Donor country-specific estimations reveal that private humanitarian aid from China, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States tend to “follow the flag.”
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Supplementary material
Working paper (May 2019)
Working paper (April 2019)
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Andreas Fuchs and Hannes Öhler
Published in: The World Economy 44(3): 671-705, March 2021
Abstract
This paper compares the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000-2016 period. We construct a new database that offers information on the country in which the headquarters of private donors are located to test whether private aid tends to follow the humanitarian aid allocation pattern of the respective official donor. Our empirical results confirm that private humanitarian aid tends to “follow the flag.” This finding is robust against the inclusion of various fixed effects, estimating instrumental variables models, and disaggregating private humanitarian aid into corporate aid and NGO aid. Donor country-specific estimations reveal that private humanitarian aid from China, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States tend to “follow the flag.”
Published paper
Supplementary material
- Online Appendix
- Replication dataset (request by email)
Working paper (May 2019)
Working paper (April 2019)
Presentations at conferences and workshops
- Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Jerusalem, Israel (04/2019)
- Annual International Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Research Group on Development Economics, Zurich, Switzerland (06/2018)
- EADI NORDIC, Bergen, Norway (08/2017)
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