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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Lee, Moretti, and Butler 2004<br />

In practice, citizens do not vote on every bill; elect representatives to<br />

do so.<br />

In a standard (Hotelling) model, median voter theorem predicts that<br />

candidates will implement median voter’s preferences when elected<br />

Move toward center to win election<br />

Lee et al: does this happen in practice?<br />

Use “close” elections as experiments in an RD design<br />

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