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Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the Us Congress
Bombardini, Matilde - 2008
interest group's campaign contributions to politicians. We uncover a robust hump-shaped relationship between the voting share … estimates of electoral uncertainty and politicians effectiveness as perceived by the interest groups. Our approach also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773176
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Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2011
What are the consequences of electing a female leader for policy and political outcomes? We answer this question in the context of U.S. cities, where women's participation in mayoral elections increased from negligible numbers in 1970 to about one-third of the elections in the 2000's. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117391
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The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis : Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880
Querubin, Pablo - 2011
We employ a regression discontinuity design based on close elections to estimate the rents from a seat in the U.S. congress between 1850-1880. Using census data, we compare wealth accumulation among those who won or lost their first race by a small margin. We find evidence of significant returns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117869
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No Kin in the Game : Moral Hazard and War in the U.S. Congress
McGuirk, Eoin - 2017
politicians' motives when they make unpopular legislative decisions. Our findings provide new evidence that agency problems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946027
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A Graphical Lasso Approach to Estimating Network Connections : The Case of U.S. Lawmakers
Battaglini, Marco; Crawford, Forrest; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2022
In this paper, we propose a new approach to the estimation of social networks and we apply it to the estimation of productivity spillovers in the U.S. Congress. Social networks such as the social connections among lawmakers are not generally directly observed, they can be recovered only using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292429
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Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock?
Bombardini, Matilde; Li, Bingjing; Trebbi, Francesco - 2022
the casus belli for a global trade war. Were its consequences unexpected? Did U.S. politicians have imperfect information … up being adversely affected? Information sets, expectations, and preferences of politicians are fundamental, but … test hypotheses about the expectations of politicians at the time of their vote. Employing repeated roll call votes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090780
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Legislative Representation, Bargaining Power, and the Distribution of Federal Funds : Evidence from the U.S. Senate
Knight, Brian G. - 2021
While representation in the U.S. House is based upon state population, each state has an equal number (two) of U.S. Senators. Thus, relative to the state delegations in the U.S. House, small population states are provided disproportionate bargaining power in the U.S. Senate. This paper provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227525
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Friends in High Places
Cohen, Lauren - 2010
We demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians have a significant impact on the voting behavior of U ….S. politicians. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians, as well as common seat locations on the chamber floor, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137309
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Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters : A Theory of Large Elections
Faravelli, Marco - 2011
We propose a new game theoretic approach to modeling large elections that overcomes the "paradox of voting" in a costly voting framework, without reliance on the assumption of ad hoc preferences for voting. The key innovation that we propose is the adoption of a "smooth" policy rule under which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120312
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Private Returns to Public Office
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2012
, we rule out a range of alternative explanations for differential earnings of politicians and a relevant control group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106303