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Valentino Larcinese

Valentino Larcinese

Associate and Professor of Public Policy

Expertise: political economy, democratization, information, mass media

Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7955 7037
Email:
v.larcinese@lse.ac.uk
Room:
CBG 3.02
Connect:
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Website
Links:
Development
Political Science and Political Economy
Department of Government

Biography

Valentino Larcinese's current research interests are:

  • Political economy
  • Public economics
  • Political science
  • Democracy and democratization
  • Mass media

Latest

Political Economy Research Seminar
Estimating Peerage Effects: Aristocratic Connections and Political Careers since 1830

31 March 2026

Valentino Larcinese (Department of Government, LSE)

To what extent does inherited social position continue to influence political selection and career progression in democratic systems? We address this question using a novel dataset that combines detailed information on t... Read more...
Development Discussion Papers
The Political Impact of the Internet on US Presidential Elections

21 September 2017

Valentino Larcinese and Luke Miner

What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawi... Read more...
Development Discussion Papers
A Better Life for All? Democratization and Electrification in Post-Apartheid South Africa

14 March 2016

Verena Kroth, Valentino Larcinese and Joachim Wehner

Does democracy affect basic service delivery? If yes, who benefits, and which elements of democracy matter - enfranchisement, the liberalization of political organization, or both? In 1994, 19 million South Africans gai... Read more...
Development Discussion Papers
The Perverse Consequences of Policy Restrictions in the Presence of Asymmetric Information

03 December 2013

Rafael Hortala-Vallve, Valentino Larcinese and Stephanie Rickard

Institutions can limit governments' policy options. Such restrictions are usually commended as solutions to time inconsistency problems or coordination failures. However, policy constraints can have important drawbacks a... Read more...
EOPP Work in Progress Seminars
Enfranchisement and Representation: Italy 1909-1913

30 January 2012

Valentino Larcinese (Department of Government, LSE)

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Development Discussion Papers
Enfranchisement and Representation: Italy 1909-1913

01 December 2011

Valentino Larcinese

This paper presents evidence on the consequences of the 1912 introduction of 'quasiuniversal' male suffrage in Italy. The reform increased the electorate from slightly less than three million to 8,650,000 and left the el... Read more...
STICERD Work in Progress Seminars
Democratisation and representation: Italy 1909-1913

09 February 2011

Valentino Larcinese (Department of Government, LSE)

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Development Discussion Papers
Do Small States Get More Federal Monies? Myth and Reality About the US Senate Malapportionment

01 April 2009

Valentino Larcinese, Leonzio Rizzo and Cecilia Testa

We analyze the relationship between senate malapportionment and the allocation of the US federal budget to the states during the period 1978-2002. A substantial literature originating from the influential paper by ?) fin... Read more...
Political Economy and Public Policy Papers
Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers

01 March 2008

Valentino Larcinese, Riccardo Puglisi and James M. Snyder, Jr.

We study the agenda-setting political behavior of a large sample of U.S. newspapers during the last decade, and the behavior of smaller samples for longer time periods. Our purpose is to examine the intensity of coverage... Read more...
Political Economy and Public Policy Papers
TESTING MODELS OF DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS USING EXIT POLLS TO MEASURE VOTER PREFERENCES AND PARTISANSHIP

01 April 2006

Valentino Larcinese, James M. Snyder, Jr. and Cecilia Testa

This paper tests various hypotheses about distributive politics by studying the distribution of federal spending across U.S. states over the period 1978-2002. We improve on previous work by using survey data to measure t... Read more...
Political Economy and Public Policy Papers
Information Acquisition, Ideology and Turnout: Theory and Evidence from Britain

01 March 2006

Valentino Larcinese

The amount of political information that voters decide to acquire during an electoral campaign depends, among other things, on prior ideological beliefs about parties and/or candidates. Voters that are ex ante indifferen... Read more...
Political Economy and Public Policy Papers
Working or Shirking? A Closer Look at MPs? Expenses and Parliamentary Attendance

01 November 2005

Timothy Besley and Valentino Larcinese

This paper studies determinants of MPs expense claims in Parliament using the data released under the freedom of information act in 2004. Using a multiple regression framework, we correlate expenses with three sets of va... Read more...
Selected Work:
  • A Better Life for All? Democratization and Electrification in Post-Apartheid South Africa
    (with Verena Kroth and Joachim Wehner), Journal of Politics (2016)
  • Blissful ignorance? Evidence from a natural experiment on the effect of individual feedback on performance
    with Oriana Bandiera & Imran Rasul), Labour Economics (2015)
  • Changing Needs, Sticky Budget: Evidence from the Geographic Distribution of US Federal Grants
    (with Leo Rizzo and Cecilia Testa), National Tax Journal (2013)
  • Why Do Small States Receive More Federal Money? US Senate Representation and the Allocation of Federal Budget
    (with Leo Rizzo and Cecilia Testa), Economics and Politics (2013)
  • Testing Models of Distributive Politics using Exit Polls to Measure Voter Preferences and Partisanship
    (with Jim Snyder and Cecilia Testa), British Journal of Political Science (2013)
  • Working or Shirking? Expenses and attendance in the UK Parliament
    (with Timothy Besley), Public Choice, 147:291-317 (2011)
  • Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the agenda setting behaviour of US newspapers
    (with Jim Snyder and Riccardo Puglisi), Journal of Public Economics, 95(9-10): 1178-1189 (2011)
  • Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New evidence from a panel of university students
    (with Oriana Bandiera and Imran Rasul), Economic Journal, 549: 1365-1398 (2010)
  • Information Acquisition, Ideology and Turnout: Theory and evidence from Britain
    Journal of Theoretical Politics, 21(2): 237-276 (2009)