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International migration of couples
Junge, Marin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
result counters the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374996
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The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and … experimental elections confirms both predictions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374997
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2013
We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal … elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328817
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Selfish and prospective: theory and evidence of pocketbook voting
Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264512
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Selfish and prospective: theory and evidence of pocketbook voting
Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268951
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The right look: Conservative politicians look better than their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010
data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and also have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary, elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275022
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The right look: Conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011
data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters especially those to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278420
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How do candidates’ looks affect their election chances?
Poutvaara, Panu - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Good-looking political candidates win more votes around the world. This holds for both male and female candidates. Candidate appearance may be especially important for uninformed voters, as it is easy to observe. Voters may favor good-looking candidates because they expect them to be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745330
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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have … success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320093
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Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting
Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320210