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Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-09-27)
We analyze the effect of municipal employees' political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. To quantify the effect, we use within-party, as-good-as random variation in close elections in the ...
When does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
(Econometric Society, 2018)
We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates against the estimate ...