GABRIELE PINTO

PhD Graduate

PhD program:: XXXV



Thesis title: Three essays in political economy

This thesis comprises three papers on political economy. We study how politicians are selected during elections in the first two papers. In the first paper, we study the individual characteristics (such as education, job, and experience) that render some candidates more successful than others. In the second paper, we study how information about a candidate’s characteristics affects voter behavior through a field/online experiment. While in the third paper, we introduce a new dataset and a methodological approach to retrieve granular precinct-level electoral results.

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