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A Time to Make Laws and a Time to Fundraise? On the Relation between Salaries and Time Use for State Politicians / Mitchell Hoffman, Elizabeth Lyons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffman, Mitchell.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22571.
- NBER working paper series no. w22571
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- Paying higher salaries is often believed to enhance worker effort, leading workers to work harder to avoid getting fired. However, workers may also respond to higher salaries by focusing on tasks that most directly affect getting fired (as opposed to those that contribute most to productivity). We explore these issues by analyzing the relationship between the level of compensation and time use for US state legislators. Using data on time use and legislator salaries, we show that higher salary is associated with legislators spending more time on fundraising. In contrast, higher salary is also associated with less time spent on legislative activities and has no clear relation to time spent on constituent services. Subgroup analysis broadly supports our interpretation of the data.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2016.
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