%0 Report
        %A Kotakorpi, Kaisa
%A Poutvaara, Panu
        %T Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis
        %D 2009
        %8 2009 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4235
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4235
        %X 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.
        %K candidate selection
%K gender differences in politics
%K pay for politicians