Plausibly Exogenous [1486] - Legislators (02/26/2024)
LHS Variable
Size of government
RHS Variable
Number of legislators
Source of Exogenous Variation
The national laws regulating the council-size in Finnish and Swedish local governments provide an unusually credible source of exogenous variations in legislature size. In Finland, the council size is a deterministic and discontinuous function of population size while in Sweden council size is a discontinuous but not deterministic function of the number of eligible voters.
- Pettersson-Lidbom (2012), “Does the size of the legislature affect the size of government? Evidence from two natural experiments”