The Value of an Additional Representative: Evidence from Firms and Reapportionment

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Brief Overview

We use a financial-market event-study coupled with a regression discontinuity around reapportionment to show that even those who do not vote, firms in our case, get value from having an additional marginal representative.

Authors

• Joaquin Artes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

• Brian Kelleher Richter, The University of Texas at Austin

• Jeff Timmons, NYU Abu Dhabi