This paper analyzes optimal re-election bars when incumbents gain socially valuable experience in office. We develop a … two-period model in which the output of a public good depends on an office-holder's effort, ability and experience. When …. Together, these effects outweigh the expected loss of incumbents' acquired experience, which results from their reduced chances …

The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences do not change as a result of experience with the … as experience is accumulated. This paper tests the effect of experience with a health-care service on preferences for … maternity-ward attributes. In order to explore the effect of experience on preferences, the research sample was decomposed into …

substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …