TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kotakorpi, Kaisa
AU  - Poutvaara, Panu
        TI  - Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis
        PY  - 2009/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4235
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4235
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - candidate selection
KW  - gender differences in politics
KW  - pay for politicians
        ER  -