measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power …

This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework …, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings … that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside earnings. -- Political competition ; outside …

The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of … sector, an increase in politicians' pay may change their mind. Second, if the reelection prospects of incumbents depend on … performance. Our results show that a higher wage attracts more educated candidates, and that better paid politicians size down the …

in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …

citizens with heterogeneous abilities and heterogeneous motivations. Politicians can moonlight, i.e., they can work in the …. Yet while high-ability non-motivated (market-fit) politicians are likely to shirk, high-ability motivated (public … parliamentarians for the period 1996-2006. We find evidence of advantageous selection of the market-fit and the public-fit politicians …