Tables
1.1Percent increase in the share of high-ranking bureaucrats with a university education
3.1Descriptive characteristics of high-ranking local government bureaucrats
3.2Recruitment mode for local government bureaucrats hired during 1970–2016
5.2Infrastructure projects contracted by the local government across the two datasets
5.4Distribution of the number of local governments from which firms are awarded contracts
5.5Share of contracts awarded to single-district firms in competitive and non-competitive districts
5.6Observational analysis predicting project won by a firm that operates in a single district (2011–12)
5.7Observational analysis predicting project won by a firm that operates in a single district (2013)
5.8Experimental design for survey experiment on the public procurement contract allocation
5.9Bureaucrats’ perceptions of likelihood of receiving a contract
6.1Infrastructure projects, Ghana’s Central region (2013–16)
6.2Correlation between incumbent party vote share and the number of projects in an electoral area
6.3Experimental design for survey experiment on within-district project allocation
6.4Average treatment effects of pro-incumbent partisanship and deprivation