electorate if tenure is beneficial or if they force high quality candidates to retire but may also benefit the electorate if they … and structurally estimating a dynamic model of voter decisions. We find that tenure effects for the U.S. Senate are …

accumulate general (experience) and specific (tenure) human capital when they work. They can also increase their wage by moving … also implies a very small role of tenure capital in accounting for wage differences between males and females (gender gap …