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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 …

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Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors

Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2011

one-third of the elections in the 2000's. We use a novel data set of U.S. mayoral elections from 1950 to 2005, and apply a …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Congressional Influence as a Determinant of Subprime Lending

Gabriel, Stuart - 2013

We apply unique loan level data from New Century Financial Corporation, a major subprime lender, to assess whether attributes of Congressional Representatives were associated with access to and pricing of subprime mortgage credit. Research findings indicate higher likelihoods of subprime loan...

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Who Becomes a Politician?

Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2017

political selection among the universe of municipal politicians and national legislators in Sweden, using extraordinarily rich … characterize an “inclusive meritocracy.” First, politicians are on average significantly smarter and better leaders than the … selection between competence and social representation, mainly due to strong positive selection of politicians of low (parental …

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Candidates, Character, and Corruption

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2015

We study the characteristics of self-selected candidates in corrupt political systems. Potential candidates differ along two dimensions of unobservable character: public spirit (altruism toward others) and honesty (the disutility suffered when selling out to special interests after securing...

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Votes for Women : An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement

Moehling, Carolyn M. - 2020

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the history of women's enfranchisement using an...

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Press Coverage and Political Accountability

Snyder, James M. - 2008

In this paper we estimate the impact of press coverage on citizen knowledge, politicians' actions, and policy. We find … that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. We use variation in … effects -- voter information, politicians' actions and policy -- we find statistically significant and substantively important …

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