Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis
By Kaisa Kotakorpi, Panu Poutvaara. Social Science Research Network, 2011
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on who wants to be a politician. We take advantage of a considerable 35 percent salary increase of Finnish MPs in the year 2000, intended to make the pay for parliamentarians more competitive. A difference-indifferences analysis, using candidates in municipal elections as a control group, suggests that the higher salary had the intended effect among women, whether measured by education or occupational qualifications. We also examine cross-party differences.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations
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- Corruption and the Incumbency Disadvantage: Theory and Evidence (2015, background): “…with both the disincentive effect (Di Tella and Schargrodsky 2003; Van Rijckeghem and Weder 2001) and the selection effect (Dal Bó et al. 2013; Ferraz and Finan 2009; Gagliarducci and Nannicini 2013; Kotakorpi and Poutvaara 2011).11 These channels are particularly closely related to prediction 1.”
- Gender Quotas and the Quality of Politicians (2014, unknown): “Quality is measured by education and occupational qualifications in Kotakorpi and Poutvaara (2011).2 Using data on Finnish politicians, they find that higher salary attracts better quality female candidates, while no effect is detected for males.”