Legislative Effectiveness and Legislative Careers

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The Quality of Political Institutions and the Curse of Natural Resources (2011, unknown): “16 Padr o i Miquel and Snyder (2006) demonstrate that legislators’ Effectiveness never declines with ten ure, even out to nine terms.”
Tenure in Office and Public Procurement (2010, unknown): “For example, Padró i Miquel and Snyder (2006) find that productivity, measured by surveying legislators, lobbyists, and journalists in North Carolina about the effectiveness of legislators in the House of Representatives, rises sharply with tenure.”
Disentangling Accountability and Competence in Elections: Evidence from U.S. Term Limits (2011, background): “Moreover, in the absence of term limits, elections allow voters to retain incum-bents whose competence has increased through experience (Padro i Miquel and Snyder 2006).”
Term Length and the Effort of Politicians (2011, background): “18For example, belonging to the majority party has been estimated to play a sizeable role in legislative e¤ectiveness by Padro-i-Miquel and Snyder (2006).”