A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers: Supplementary Material

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.

Keywords: political careers, politicians, elections, term limits

JEL Classification: D72, J44, J45

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Diermeier, Daniel and Keane, Michael P. and Merlo, Antonio M., A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers: Supplementary Material (September 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=598844 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.598844

Daniel Diermeier

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management ( email )

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Evanston, IL 60208
United States

Michael P. Keane

Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department ( email )

Tempe, AZ 85287-3806
United States

University of Technology, Sydney (Visiting July 2006-Present)

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Antonio M. Merlo (Contact Author)

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics ( email )

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