educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …

educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …

preferences of a policy maker. Yet, little is known about policy maker’s normative views in a way amenable to this use. In a … resolving preference conflicts across individuals, politicians place substantially more importance on least-favored than on most …” which insists that choices merit intervention only if the lure of immediacy may bias intertemporal choice. Politicians’ and …

electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics … dimensions of non-cognitive ability. Second, elected politicians possess more desirable traits than nonelected candidates. Our …

for politicians. We exploit variation in sex ratios - the number of men divided by the number of women in a region …