just before elections, when they are highly predictive of voting. In contrast to earlier studies I find no effect of voting …

Recent research has documented that competent-looking political candidates do better in U.S. elections and that … that babyfaced political candidates are perceived as less competent and therefore fare worse in elections. We test this …

female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …

Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young children before the 1994 election, but made generous promises to the … same group before the 1998 election. Since parents with older children were largely unaffected we use a difference …

elections on local economic growth in Indonesia by using a quasi-experimental research method. The first direct elections of … district leaders in Indonesia were performed in a staggered manner, and decided such that the year of election is exogenous …. Thus, growth in districts that have had their first elections of district heads can be compared with growth in districts …

economic growth, using panel data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions, covering Swedish general elections from 1982 to 2002 …

Australia, Finland, France, and the United States. This appearance gap gives candidates on the right an advantage in elections … 6% in the 2000–2006 U.S. Senate elections because they fielded candidates who looked more competent. These shifts are … Republicans also won nine of the 15 gubernatorial elections where looks were decisive. Using Finnish data, we also show that …