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

Nicola Maaser; Martin Štrobl

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102426

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

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	102426
Journal	European Journal of Political Economy
Volume	84
ISSN	0176-2680
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102426
Publication status	Published - Sept 2024

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Local elections
Local government
Retrospective voting
School performance

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