Hyytinen, Ari; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Saarimaa, Tuukka; … - In: Quantitative Economics 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1019-1051
We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non-experimental regression discontinuity design (RDD) estimates against the estimate produced by this experiment that takes...