The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it☆
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We thank the co-editor Brian Knight as well as Heléne Berg, Andreas Bernecker, Christian Bjørnskov, Massimo Bordignon, Mikael Elinder, Olle Folke, Silke Friedrich, David Furtunato, Edward Glaeser, Andreas Graefe, Veronica Grembi, Friedrich Heinemann, Juha Itkonen, Daniel Klein, Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Erik Lindqvist, Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Mattias Nordin, Christopher Olivola, Elisabeth Palvölgyi, Torsten Persson, Alexander Todorov, Andreas Wagener, two anonymous referees, seminar participants at Aarhus University, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, George Mason University, Masaryk University, Princeton University, Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Cambridge, University of Mannheim, and Uppsala University, participants at the EPCS, CESifo Public Economics, IIPF, MPSA, EEA, and PCS conferences for helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier version, Andrew Leigh and Alexander Todorov for providing data from Australia and the United States, Andreas Graefe for programming our surveys using MTurk, Eugen Dimant, Malin Olsson Tallås, Max Ostermayer and Thomas Wilhelmsson for excellent research assistance, and the Swedish Research Council (Berggren, grant No. 2103-734), the Torsten Söderberg Foundation (Berggren, grant No. E1/14), the Jan Wallander' and Tom Hedelius' Foundation (Jordahl, grant No. P2012-0130:1) and the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation (Poutvaara, grant No. 5383) for financial support.