Run for your life? The effect of close elections on the life expectancy of politicians
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- Borgschulte, Mark & Vogler, Jacob, 2017. "Run For Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians," IZA Discussion Papers 10779, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Mortality; Status; Longevity; Stress; Politicians; Regression discontinuity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
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