Replication Data for: Informal Work, Risk and Clientelism: Evidence from 223 Slums Across India
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Most of the poor in the developing world work in the informal economy — that is, in occupations that take place outside of the legal system of taxing, spending and regulating. This paper examines how informal work impacts the policy and electoral preferences of the poor. We emphasize the importance of the risks inherent in informal employment in shaping the responsiveness of citizens to clientelism and their policy and voting preferences. Since most informal workers are not covered by (formal) social insurance, they prefer material goods and candidates that produce targeted, clientelistic benefits rather than programmatically delivered insurance that is unlikely to reach them. As a result, we argue that informal workers are more likely to rely on clientelistic relations as a means of hedging risks than formal workers, prefer policies tha' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Informality, Clientelism, Developing countries"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Most of the poor in the developing world work in the informal economy — that is, in occupations that take place outside of the legal system of taxing, spending and regulating. This paper examines how informal work impacts the policy and electoral preferences of the poor. We emphasize the importance of the risks inherent in informal employment in shaping the responsiveness of citizens to clientelism and their policy and voting preferences. Since most informal workers are not covered by (formal) social insurance, they prefer material goods and candidates that produce targeted, clientelistic benefits rather than programmatically delivered insurance that is unlikely to reach them. As a result, we argue that informal workers are more likely to rely on clientelistic relations as a means of hedging risks than formal workers, prefer policies tha' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
Most of the poor in the developing world work in the informal economy — that is, in occupations that take place outside of the legal system of taxing, spending and regulating. This paper examines how informal work impacts the policy and electoral preferences of the poor. We emphasize the importance of the risks inherent in informal employment in shaping the responsiveness of citizens to clientelism and their policy and voting preferences. Since most informal workers are not covered by (formal) social insurance, they prefer material goods and candidates that produce targeted, clientelistic benefits rather than programmatically delivered insurance that is unlikely to reach them. As a result, we argue that informal workers are more likely to rely on clientelistic relations as a means of hedging risks than formal workers, prefer policies tha
Informality, Clientelism, Developing countries