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Is leisure a normal good? : evidence from the European Parliament
Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha Tore - 2011
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an … are independent of attendance to the Parliament. Using detailed information on each parliamentarian of the European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380426
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Gender differences in cooperative environments? : evidence from the U.S. congress
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2016
This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521132
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Returns to office in national and local politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2016
system. We apply the method to the Finnish proportional open list system. Being elected to parliament increases annual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493992
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Freedom of speech, deterrence, and compellence in the parliament
Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - 2021
Constitutional Amendment, the adoption of which lifted the immunity of 132 of the 550 members of the Turkish Parliament, we find that … immunity from prosecution impacts how the Members of the Parliament (MPs) act and perform their duties in the Parliament … diligent in the Parliament (drafting fewer pieces of legislation, initiating fewer investigation inquiries, delivering fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517500
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Television market size and political accountability in the US house of representatives
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2022
This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191645
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Hurricanes, climate change policies and electoral accountability
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele; … - 2019
This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006068
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Do politicians affect firm outcomes? : evidence from connections to the German federal parliament
Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2024
We study how connections to German federal parliamentarians affect firm dynamics by constructing a novel dataset to measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power, we exploit (i) new appointments to the company...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535705
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An economic analysis of exclusion restrictions for instrumental variable estimation
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor) - 2007
Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003529746
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Female political representation and substantive effects on policies : a literature review
Hessami, Zohal; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2020
The share of women in political offices has increased considerably over the past few decades in almost every country in the world. Does this matter for policy outcomes? This is the first paper to provide a literature review on the substantive effects of female representation on policies. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201258
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Happiness and public policy : a procedural perspective
Stutzer, Alois - 2019
This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118051