All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage
(2020)
Journal Article
Folke, O., & Rickne, J. (2020). All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(1), 260-287. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20180435
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Dynastic Political Rents? Economic Benefits to Relatives of Top Politicians (2017)
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Folke, O., Persson, T., & Rickne, J. (2017). Dynastic Political Rents? Economic Benefits to Relatives of Top Politicians. Economic Journal, 127(605), F495-F517. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12494We exploit close elections in Swedish municipalities to test whether relatives of politicians who become mayors obtain economic benefits. We find no benefits for the siblings of new mayors, but the average earnings of children of newly appointed mayo... Read More about Dynastic Political Rents? Economic Benefits to Relatives of Top Politicians.
Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden (2017)
Journal Article
Besley, T., Folke, O., Persson, T., & Rickne, J. (2017). Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden. American Economic Review, 107(8), 2204-2242. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20160080We develop a model where party leaders choose the competence of politicians on the ballot to trade off electoral success against their own survival. The predicted correlation between the competence of party leaders and followers is strongly supported... Read More about Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden.
Who Becomes A Politician? (2017)
Journal Article
Dal Bó, E., Finan, F., Folke, O., Persson, T., & Rickne, J. (2017). Who Becomes A Politician?. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132(4), 1877-1914. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjx016Can a democracy attract competent leaders, while attaining broad representation? Economic models suggest that free-riding incentives and lower opportunity costs give the less competent a comparative advantage at entering political life. Moreover, if... Read More about Who Becomes A Politician?.