Do Parties Matter for Economic Outcomes? A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

By Per Pettersson-Lidbom. 2008

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Competing on Good Politicians (2009, positive): “+βpDijt ·MVR p ijt)+ψi (8) (16)Ferreira and Gyourko (2009) and Pettersson-Lidbom (2008) use the same identification strategy to estimate the impact of political parties on policy outcomes in the US and Sweden, respectively.”
Women's Representation and Public Spending (2009, neutral): “Moreover, several empirical studies have shown that they indeed act independently from the national government (see e.g. Pettersson-Lidbom, 2008 and Svaleryd and Vlachos, 2007).”
Tying Your Enemy's Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil (2012, neutral): “Pettersson-Lidbom, P. (2008): “Do Parties Matter for Economic Outcomes? A RegressionDiscontinuity Approach,” Journal of the European Economic Association 6, 1037– 1056. Rubin, D. (1974): “Estimating Causal Effects of Treatments in Randomized and NonRandomized Studies,” Journal of Educational Psychol”
Intergovernmental Grants as Signals and the Alignment Effect: Theory and Evidence (2015, positive): “As pointed out by Pettersson-Lidbom (2008), the inclusion of these additional covariates is a way of checking whether alignment status is as good as randomly assigned (conditional on f(MAi,t; ALi,t)) and it should not significantly affect the estimate of the alignment effect.”
Shades of brown and green: Party effects in proportional election systems (2014, neutral): “(2004), Ferreira & Gyorko (2009), Pettersson-Lidbom (2009) and Warren (2008).”
Partisan Politics: The Empirical Evidence from OECD Panel Studies (2017, positive): “Pettersson-Lidbom (2008) pioneered RDD tests for partisan models: “Party control changes discontinuously at 50% of the vote share, which makes it possible to implement a regression-discontinuity design.”
Local Favoritism in At-Large Proportional Representation Systems (2016, neutral): “This makes the regression discontinuity (RD) design ideal for electoral settings; close elections allow researchers to plausibly identify causal effects of political representation (Lee, 2008; Pettersson-Lidbom, 2008).”
Political rents in a non-corrupt democracy (2009, positive): “That the autonomy from central government is not only formal has been shown in several empirical studies on the e¤ects of local 8 government on policy (e.g. Pettersson-Lidbom 2001, 2008).”
Richer (and Holier) Than Thou? The Effect of Relative Income Improvements on Demand for Redistribution (2017, neutral): “Details about the left-right scale in Swedish politics can be found in Petersson (1994), Pettersson-Lidbom (2008), and Oscarsson and Holmberg, 2013 (see also Alesina et al., 1997, for a comparison of the Swedish left-right scale to the American setting).”