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"Good Politicians" : Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance
Gulzar, Saad; Khan, Muhammed - 2023
How can we motivate good politicians those that will carry out policy that is responsive to citizens' preferences to enter politics? In a field experiment in Pakistan, we vary how political office is portrayed to ordinary citizens. We find that emphasizing prosocial motives for holding political...
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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression : Evidence from U.S. Elections
Brown, Ryan - 2019
election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863788
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Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes : Evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni - 2020
comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838460
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Minority Groups and Success in Election Primaries
Epstein, Gil S. - 2018
In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in primary elections. Using a unique dataset of candidates in Israeli primaries, we find that while being a new immigrant, a woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral...
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Turnout in the Municipal Elections of March 2020 and Excess Mortality During the Covid-19 Epidemic in France
Bertoli, Simone - 2020
We analyze the consequences of the decision of French government to maintain the first round of the municipal elections on March 15, 2020 on local excess mortality in the following weeks. We exploit heterogeneity across municipalities in voter turnout, which we instrument using a measure of the...
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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties
Carlsson, Magnus - 2018
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 …
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Modelling the Dynamic Effects of Elective Hospital Admissions on Emergency Levels in England
Jimenez-Martin, Sergi - 2019
In England as elsewhere, policy makers are trying to reduce the pressure on costs due to rising hospital admissions by encouraging GPs to refer fewer patients to hospital specialists. This could have an impact on elective treatment levels, particularly procedures for conditions which are not...
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Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 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...
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Run for Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians
Borgschulte, Mark - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955039
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On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination
Reuben, Ernesto - 2017
We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...
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