results suggest that over-reliance on elections to discipline politicians is misplaced. …

for contesting elections, making it critical to understand the role of politicians' education in their performance. We … and less-educated politicians. We find that narrowly electing a graduate leader, as compared to a non-graduate leader, in …

An important question in representative democracies is how to ensure that politicians behave in the best interest of … regulate the actions of politicians is their pay structure. In this paper, we provide fresh insights into the impact of …

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

' wages; they do so either directly, as when individuals vote in a salary committee, or indirectly, as when political parties …, via the myriad of social, economic, fiscal, and other policies, generate wages. The recommendations made by wage … large societies; (5) Given a fixed distributional form for wages and two political parties which either ignore or oppose …