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Do governments increase public employment in election years? This article answers this question by using data from … Sweden and Finland, two countries that are similar in many respects but in which local elections are held at different points … in time. These facts make it possible for us to separate an election effect from other time effects. Our results indicate …
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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 effect of being elected on subsequent income. Getting...
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We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a regression discontinuity design in any electoral system. We apply the method to the Finnish...
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