Erschienen in:Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) ; No. 956
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1 Online-Ressource (49 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2463209
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This paper studies the impact of citizens' human capital on the characteristics of elected politicians in democratic elections for the post of mayor. By using a change in the rules for Italian mayoral elections and a difference-in-differences estimator, I find that cities endowed with a larger amount of human capital tend to elect mayors that have a higher educational attainment and that were previously employed in skill-intensive jobs. This result is quantitatively small but robust to omitted variables or selection issues