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 …

hardly any effects of teacher's gender, age, pay level, qualifications, or working hours on boys' or girls' school track … recommendations or school choice. Even when following students into middle school, no effects of elementary-school teacher gender on …

Local politicians can function as crucial intermediaries between voters and party bosses in a clientelistic network. We …-level election returns. Local politicians systematically misallocate resources based on party loyalty and successfully deliver votes … to their national co-partisans. Politicians are compensated for successful mobilization through a performance bonus …

. Foreign-born politicians, those who were born in countries other than the country where they hold policymaking positions, may … exhibit a strong preference for refugees. We provide the first empirical evidence on the relationship between politicians …-born politicians have higher recognition rates and offer more aid to refugees. Our findings remain robust for different outcome …

We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's grad- uates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 … the math background in driving the Economics gender gap relative to other fields. Fourth, a triple difference analysis of … in the Economics gender gap among treated students. …

This paper explores the role of performance-related pay to the UK gender pay gap at the mean and across the earnings … jobs explaining 12 per cent of the observed mean gender pay gap and making a larger contribution than many work …-related pay jobs is more important in explaining the gender pay gap at the top end of the wage distribution, consistent with …

This paper examines the role of female occupational segregation on the gender wage gap across the entire wage … gender wage gap at the bottom and median percentile of the wage distribution. Using the recentered in uence function … decomposition, I find that the gender wage gap due to structural effect is highest at the bottom of the wage distribution, evidence …