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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 ...
Do Single-Party and Coalition Governments Differ in their Economic Outcomes? Evidence from Finnish Municipalities
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-10-07)
Even though Finland has proportional elections, single-party control in Finnish local councils is not uncommon contrary to what one might expect. The largest party holds more than half of the seats in every third Finnish ...
Primary Effect in Open-List Elections
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-09-07)
We study how political parties select political leaders. Using regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local elections, we find that parties use vote ranks to decide upon promotions. Moreover, we show that ...
Does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-09-21)
We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between
candidates are resolved via lottery. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates
of personal incumbency advantage against the estimate produced ...
Public Procurement versus Laissez-Faire: Evidence from Household Waste Collection
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-12-20)
We document that switching from laissez-faire production to public procurement in residential waste collection in Finland reduces the number of firms active in the local market, but induces a statistically significant and ...
Victorian Voting: Party Orientation and Class Alignment Revisited
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-01-29)
Much of what we know about the alignment of voters with parties comes from mass surveys of the electorate in the postwar period or from aggregate electoral data. Using individual elector level panel data from the 19th ...
Victorian Voting: The Origins of Party Orientation and Class Alignment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2019-10-02)
Much of what we know about the alignment of voters with parties comes from mass surveys of the electorate in the postwar period or from aggregate electoral data. Using individual elector level panel data from 19th-century ...