information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled …

There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous … comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …

We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of election to political office on natural … governors and other political office holders live over one year longer than losers of close elections. The positive effects of … election appear in the mid-1800s, and grow notably larger when we restrict the sample to later years. We also analyze …

We study the effect of term limits on voter turnout in local Italian elections. Since 2014 the Italian law allows … 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 … elections where a party either barely wins or loses an additional seat.We estimate that a one seat increase for the far … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party …

using staggered timing of state elections. We find that rulers allocate more primary school resources in the years preceding … and following elections, but there is only weak evidence that resources are targeted to marginal constituencies. The … inspections. We also show that around election years, teachers spend more time on "non-teaching" activities. The political cycles …

Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an …

primary elections. Using a unique dataset of candidates in Israeli primaries, we find that while being a new immigrant, a …