Political Alignment and Bureaucratic Pay

• In Event: Public Employee Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors

Brief Overview

We study new, unique individual-level data in the context of Norwegian local politics. Our empirical strategy builds on a quasi-experimental design that builds on a regression-discontinuity framework leveraging close elections for causal inference.

Authors

• Jon H. Fiva, Norwegian Business School

• Benny Geys, BI Norwegian Business School

• Tom Reiel Heggedal, BI Norwegian Business School

• Rune Sorensen, BI Norwegian Business School