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"Love thy neighbour"? The effect of income and language differences on votes for municipal secessions
(Elsevier, 2018)
This paper studies voters’ preferences on municipal borders in a setting with cohabiting linguistic communities. It takes advantage of unique data from referendum results in the Canadian province of Quebec in 2004, which ...
Relative age effects in political selection
(Elsevier, 2019)
We exploit a regression discontinuity design to provide causal evidence of the relative age effect (RAE) on a long-run adult age outcome: Political selection. We find strong evidence of the RAE in politics in Finland. ...
Are voters rational?
(Elsevier, 2019)
We test whether a voter's decision to cast a vote depends on its probability of affecting the election outcome. Using exogenous variation arising at population cutoffs determining council sizes in Finnish municipal elections, ...
Rank effects in political promotions
(Springer Verlag, 2018)
This paper studies the effect of candidates’ personal vote ranks on promotions to political power in an open list proportional representation system. Using a regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local ...
Common pool problems in voluntary municipal mergers
(Elsevier, 2015)
We analyze free-riding behavior of Finnish municipalities prior to voluntary municipal mergers. The merger process creates a temporary common pool problem, because of a delay from the initial decision to the actual merger ...
Local representation and strategic voting: Evidence from electoral boundary reforms
(Elsevier, 2016)
We analyze whether voters value local political representation by exploiting municipal mergers, which increase the number of candidates available to voters and intensify political competition. In the Finnish open-list ...
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 ...
Returns to Office in National and Local Politics: A Bootstrap Method and Evidence from Finland
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
We estimate the private returns to being elected to parliament or to a municipal council using a regression discontinuity (RD) design. We first present a bootstrap method for measuring the closeness of elections, which can ...
Public Procurement versus Laissez-Faire: Evidence from Household Waste Collection
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
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 ...