A large theoretical and empirical literature explores whether politicians and political parties change their policy … in lower quality politicians and receive negative local newspaper coverage. These findings have important implications …

, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting …-60% compared to citizens with an executive position. Hence, we show that the widely held claim that politicians would earn more in …

-control, before-and-after discontinuity design to learn about the impact of female politicians in local elections. Our evidence is …

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

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 …

-ideological voters, who care about national and local policies, strongly prefer experts. We show that parties compete on good politicians … prediction. We find that politicians with higher ex-ante quality − as measured by years of schooling, previous market income, and …, the characteristics of politicians belonging to opposite parties converge to high-quality levels in close races …