This paper provides new evidence on the political and policy consequences of partisan vs. nonpartisan local elections in the context of school board elections in North Carolina. Specifically, we study the impacts of shifting to partisan elections in a difference-in-differences framework. First,...

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This paper assesses the impacts of physician-patient race-match on patient mortality. We draw on administrative data from Florida, linking hospital encounters from 2012 through 2014 to information from the Florida Physician Workforce Survey. Using an instrumental variables approach, we find that...