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Labor Supply of Politicians
Fisman, Raymond - 2012
We examine the labor supply of politicians using data on Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). We exploit the introduction of a law that equalized MEPs' salaries, which had previously differed by as much as a factor of ten. Doubling an MEP's salary increases the probability of running for...
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Structural Reforms and Elections : Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020
We assemble two unique databases. One is on reforms in domestic finance, external finance, trade, product markets and labor markets, which covers 90 advanced and developing economies from 1973 to 2014. The other is on electoral results and timing of elections. In the 66 democracies considered in...
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Effects of Photo ID Laws on Registration and Turnout : Evidence from Rhode Island
Esposito, Francesco Maria - 2019
We study the effect of photo ID laws on voting using a difference-in-differences estimation approach around Rhode Island's implementation of a photo ID law. We employ anonymized administrative data to measure the law's impact by comparing voting behavior among those with drivers' licenses versus...
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Strict Voter Identification Laws, Turnout, and Election Outcomes
Hoekstra, Mark - 2019
can affect voter turnout and election outcomes. We do so using historical data on more than 2,000 races in Florida and … small effect on turnout. Similarly, we also show under a range of conservative assumptions that very few election results … or critics were true, strict identification laws are unlikely to have a meaningful impact on turnout or election outcomes …
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Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda
Blattman, Christopher - 2019
We estimate the effects of one of the largest anti-vote-buying campaigns ever studied -- with half a million voters exposed across 1427 villages--in Uganda's 2016 elections. Working with civil society organizations, we designed the study to estimate how voters and candidates responded to their...
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Voting for Democracy : Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation
Kaplan, Ethan - 2019
.3) percentage points in the 2017 Presidential election. These effects are robust to different specifications and distinctive to the …
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Vote Choice Formation and Minimal Effects of TV Debates : Evidence from 61 Elections in 9 OECD Countries
Pennec, Caroline Le - 2019
. We find that the share of voters who state a pre-election vote intention corresponding to their final vote choice … increases by 15 percentage points in the two months preceding the election. Changes in individual vote choices mostly result …
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Coordination and Bandwagon Effects of Candidate Rankings : Evidence from Runoff Elections
Pons, Vincent - 2019
and past election results. We isolate the impact of candidates' rankings using an RDD in French local and parliamentary … candidates and voters and of election outcomes …
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Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy
Cantoni, Enrico - 2020
We test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates, canvassers supporting the candidates' list, or to a...
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Public Information is an Incentive for Politicians : Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020
In 2010, we informed a random set of Delhi councilors, some ineligible for re-election in their current ward, that a …
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