public elementary education we provide evidence that in 2008 local election, just some months after the publication of the … 2005 to 2007 increased by around 5 percentage points the probability of re-election. This effect is even greater in …

comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …

reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibility of re-election affects the level of rents …

We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of election to political office on natural … election appear in the mid-1800s, and grow notably larger when we restrict the sample to later years. We also analyze …

improve the quality of politicians running for election …

from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party … wins a marginal seat, they experience higher levels of politician turnover before the next election and receive negative …