Do Pension Benefits Mobilize?

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Brief Overview

Applying a RDD approach to the voter records of public-school teachers in Illinois, the paper shows that pension benefit expansions have a large transitory mobilizing effect among democratic voters, especially among individuals with lower salaries.

Authors

• Michael Ganslmeier, University of Oxford

• Margaryta Klymak

• Tim Vlandas