Following the Bureaucrats: Impacts of the Revolving Door in the EPA

• In Event: Bureaucratic Hiring, Firing, and the Revolving Door

Brief Overview

Using LinkedIn career data, enforcement records, and air monitoring data, we track career trajectories of all career EPA officials and assess if revolving-door hires by regulated firms leads to improved compliance or simply reduced sanctions.

Authors

• Kyuwon Lee, University of Southern California

• Rebecca Perlman, University of California, Berkeley