A Drag On The Ticket? Estimating Coattail Effects

• In Event: On Incumbency and Coattails

Brief Overview

We estimate coattail effects of Gubernatorial and US Senate candidates on elections for the US House. We investigate the extent to which correlations between top-of-the-ticket and down-ballot quality differences can explain observed coattail effects

Authors

• Kevin DeLuca, Yale University

• Daniel J. Moskowitz, The University of Chicago

• Benjamin Schneer, Harvard Kennedy School