for contesting elections, making it critical to understand the role of politicians' education in their performance. We … investigate the impact of electing an educated politician on economic development in the politician's constituency in India. We … and less-educated politicians. We find that narrowly electing a graduate leader, as compared to a non-graduate leader, in …

This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on … crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without …

for contesting elections, making it critical to understand the role of politicians' education in their performance. We … investigate the impact of electing an educated politician on economic development in the politician's constituency in India. We … and less-educated politicians. We find that narrowly electing a graduate leader, as compared to a non-graduate leader, in …

India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …

This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on … crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without …

Union institutions, and so on). Many politicians get into office through a democratic election, while others are selected or …Politicians are persons involved in the process of public policymaking in their role as members of governments … appointed to a public office. For many politicians politics is a full-time job, while for others it remains an activity in …

avoid tax increases in election years. These data contain 3 useful attributes: (1) when state politicians enact tax laws, (2 … implemented tax changes relative to non-election years. We find some evidence that politicians are most likely to enact tax …We use new annual data on gasoline taxes and corporate income taxes from U.S. states to analyze whether politicians …

investigated by scholars, empirical findings are mixed at best. This is partly because of the non-random nature of election timing …

Incumbency advantage is a well known phenomenon in developed countries such as the US. Recent work on Brazil and India … disadvantage in Brazil or India. I illustrate this point by estimating the incumbency advantage among Brazilian Mayors …