Arbeitspapier
Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
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 proportional open list system. Being elected to parliament increases annual earnings initially by €20,000, and getting elected to a municipal council by €1,000. The returns to office for parliamentarians accrue mainly through higher wages during the time in office. Our results imply that the returns to office may be large even in the absence of corruption.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10003
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Public Sector Labor Markets
- Thema
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returns to office
elections
regression discontinuity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kotakorpi, Kaisa
Poutvaara, Panu
Terviö, Marko
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kotakorpi, Kaisa
- Poutvaara, Panu
- Terviö, Marko
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2016
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