Essays in political economics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This thesis explores the external validity of existing findings on three important questions in political economics. In the first chapter, I explore whether partisans show the same willingness to engage in discriminatory behavior in natural settings as they do in laboratory experiments and surveys. In the second chapter, I leverage a unique change in the US federal tax code to determine whether legislator compensation has a detectable impact on political competition. In the third chapter, I analytically and empirically examine the interpretation of a commonly used research design for studying the importance of politician background characteristics. In each case, I extend our understanding of these problems by probing the scope of prior research
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | McConnell, Christopher Paul |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Malhotra, Neil Ankur |
| Thesis advisor | Malhotra, Neil Ankur |
| Thesis advisor | Martin, Gregory (Gregory J.) |
| Thesis advisor | Shotts, Kenneth W |
| Degree committee member | Martin, Gregory (Gregory J.) |
| Degree committee member | Shotts, Kenneth W |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Christopher McConnell |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Business |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Christopher Paul McConnell
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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