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A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers: Supplementary Materiel

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Daniel Diermeier () (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
Michael Keane () (Department of Economics, Yale University)
Antonio Merlo () (Department of Economics, University of Pennsyvlania)

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This paper contains additional details about the model in our paper “A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers” (Diermeier, Keane and Merlo (2004)), as well as the computational methods we use to solve and estimate the model, and the construction of the data set.

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Paper provided by Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania in its series PIER Working Paper Archive with number 04-038.

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Date of creation: 01 Sep 2004
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Keywords: Political careers; politicians; elections; term limits;

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D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations
J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets

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