politicians’ rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House …

, they will be more likely to run for election; for the same reason, they will also be more likely to shirk once elected … empirical evidence shows that bad but dedicated politicians come along with good but not fully committed politicians. There is … in fact a non-negligible fraction of citizens with remarkably high pre-election income who are appointed in parliament …

generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be present not only for interest groups but also for ruling politicians and …

parliamentary election is investigated, using cross-provincial data, and controlling for other social, political and economic …

Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …