全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Estimating Candidate Valence

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w29681
来源ID	Working Paper 29681
	Estimating Candidate Valence
	Kei Kawai; Takeaki Sunada
发表日期	2022-01-24
出版年	2022
语种	英语
摘要	We estimate valence measures for candidates running in U.S. House elections from data on vote shares. Our estimates control for endogeneity of campaign spending and sample selection of candidates due to endogenous entry. Our identification and estimation strategy builds on ideas developed for estimating production functions. We find that incumbents have substantially higher valence measures than challengers running against them, resulting in about 9.2 percentage-point differences in the vote share, on average. We find that open-seat challengers have higher valence measures than those running against incumbents by about 5.3 percentage points. Our measure of candidate valence can be used to study various substantive questions of political economy. We illustrate its usefulness by studying the source of incumbency advantage in U.S. House elections.
主题	Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Welfare and Collective Choice
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w29681
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587355
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kei Kawai,Takeaki Sunada. Estimating Candidate Valence. 2022.