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The Norwegian Municipality Reform & The Quality of Politicians

Eide, Asbjørn Korpberget; Riise, Martin Bergh
Master thesis
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2021
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  • Master of Science [1116]
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This master thesis investigates how the local government reform affected the

quality of local politicians in Norway. Quality is measured by education level and

ability score measured by a regression on income, where we rely on pre political

income as our main source of income statistics. Excellent data on individual

candidates and on aggregate municipal level lets us exploit the time varying and

cross-sectional components of the datasets. A descriptive analysis is done on

multiple variables to elaborate on the effects on the local government reform in

broader terms, while a more qualitative analysis is conducted to find the

relationship of how the local government reform has affected the quality of

politicians in both directly affected and unaffected municipalities. In addition, we

provide an illustrative example of one larger amalgamation to show the local

government reform effects on a municipal level. To estimate the effects of the

local government reform on quality, we employ a standard difference-indifferences

regression analysis in addition to a Mincer earning regression. First,

we find that local politicians are positively selected based on years of schooling

and Mincer score. Second, our empirical models suggest that the local

government reform have a positive effect on the quality of elected politicians

measured by years of schooling and little to no effect when measured by their

ability score. The results suggests that the local government reform had no or very

limited effect on the quality of local politicians elected to council in Norway.
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Masteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Business, Economics - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2021
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