Plausibly Exogenous [1701] - Monitoring Politicians (09/29/2024)

LHS Variable
Politicans’ attendance

RHS Variable
Monitoring

Source of Exogenous Variation
In 2014, the Swiss Upper House switched from voting by show of hands to an electronic voting system, where individual decisions on specific exogenously defined vote types are published automatically.

- Hofer and Fonseca (2024), “The impact of monitoring on politicians’ attendance: Evidence from the Swiss Upper House”