Who Becomes a Member of Congress? Evidence From De-Anonymized Census Data

• In Event: Who Becomes a Politician?

Brief Overview

We link members of Congress to individual-level de-anonymized 1940 Census, finding that future members earned substantially above-average market incomes even after conditioning on occupation, education, and other covariates in a Mincer regression.

Authors

• Dan Thompson, Stanford University

• Andrew B. Hall, Stanford University

• Jesse Lee Yoder, Stanford University