School performance and retrospective voting: Evidence from local elections in Denmark

Nicola Maaser and Martin Štrobl

European Journal of Political Economy, 2024, vol. 84, issue C

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate whether voters hold local politicians accountable for the performance of local schools. We examine this effect for the 2013 and 2017 Danish local elections using register data and polling station-level voting records. We find robust evidence of retrospective voting from pooled and fixed effects estimations. Exploiting the micro-level character of our data, we present evidence that higher-income citizens are more sensitive to changes in school performance, while other demographic and political characteristics do not appear to have mattered.

Keywords: Retrospective voting; School performance; Local elections; Local government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 D72 H73 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102426

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