Does holding elections during a Covid-19 pandemic put the lives of politicians at risk?

Autor: Laurent Bach, Clément Malgouyres, Arthur Guillouzouic
Přispěvatelé: ESSEC Business School, Essec Business School, Paris School of Economics (PSE), École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institut d'Études Politiques [IEP] - Paris, Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PJSE), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institut des politiques publiques (IPP), Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), ANR-17-EURE-0001,PGSE,Ecole d'Economie de Paris(2017)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Male
French elections
Regression discontinuity design
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Electoral turnout
health care facilities
manpower
and services
Population
Covid-19 pandemic
JEL: I - Health
Education
and Welfare/I.I1 - Health/I.I1.I18 - Government Policy • Regulation • Public Health
03 medical and health sciences
Municipal elections
0502 economics and business
Pandemic
JEL: I - Health
Education
and Welfare/I.I0 - General
Humans
050207 economics
Cities
Mortality
education
Pandemics
health care economics and organizations
Aged
Excess mortality
education.field_of_study
050208 finance
030503 health policy & services
Health Policy
05 social sciences
Causal effect
Politics
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
16. Peace & justice
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Active participation
Geography
JEL: I - Health
Education
and Welfare/I.I0 - General/I.I0.I00 - General
Communicable Disease Control
individual-level data
Town hall
France
0305 other medical science
Demography
Zdroj: Journal of Health Economics
Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, 2021, 78, pp.102462. ⟨10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102462⟩
ISSN: 0167-6296
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102462⟩
Popis: International audience; We estimate the impact of French town hall elections held in mid-March 2020 on the mortality of 163,000 male candidates aged above 60. Their excess mortality during March and April was similar to the general population. We compare candidates in cities with two candidate lists to those in cities with only one list, as elections are more intense in contacts in the former group. We also use a regression discontinuity design and investigate mortality in 2020 depending on how candidates fared in the 2014 election. We cannot detect any causal effect of active participation in the 2020 elections on mortality.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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