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Candidates' quality and electoral participation : evidence from Italian municipal elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344923
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Candidates' education and turnout : evidence from Italian municipal elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - In: German economic review 18 (2017) 1, pp. 22-50
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722091
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Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections
Benedetto, Marco Alberto De; De Paola, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761639
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Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2014
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352339