Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an … are independent of attendance to the Parliament. Using detailed information on each parliamentarian of the European …

system. We apply the method to the Finnish proportional open list system. Being elected to parliament increases annual …

Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income …, 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 …