Table 1 Descriptive statistics. Variable...

Table 1

Descriptive statistics.

Variable	Full sample	No politician	At least one
Turnout 2009	38.76	32.33	41.52
Turnout 2010	79.81	76.14	81.39
Ever nominated	0.74	0.55	0.82
Ever elected	0.13	0.10	0.15
Parent politicians per 25 students	0.76	0.00	1.09
Woman	0.49	0.45	0.51
Foreign born	0.08	0.09	0.08
Years of education, father	12.25	11.81	12.44
Years of education, mother	12.62	12.21	12.80
Standardized income, father	0.78	0.66	0.83
Standardized income, mother	0.33	0.27	0.36
Social assistance recipient, father	0.06	0.07	0.05
Social assistance recipient, mother	0.08	0.10	0.07
Father employed	0.86	0.84	0.87
Mother employed	0.85	0.83	0.86
Observations (min)	1177572	351666	825906
Observations (max)	1264746	380033	884713

Variable	Full sample	No politician	At least one
Turnout 2009	38.76	32.33	41.52
Turnout 2010	79.81	76.14	81.39
Ever nominated	0.74	0.55	0.82
Ever elected	0.13	0.10	0.15
Parent politicians per 25 students	0.76	0.00	1.09
Woman	0.49	0.45	0.51
Foreign born	0.08	0.09	0.08
Years of education, father	12.25	11.81	12.44
Years of education, mother	12.62	12.21	12.80
Standardized income, father	0.78	0.66	0.83
Standardized income, mother	0.33	0.27	0.36
Social assistance recipient, father	0.06	0.07	0.05
Social assistance recipient, mother	0.08	0.10	0.07
Father employed	0.86	0.84	0.87
Mother employed	0.85	0.83	0.86
Observations (min)	1177572	351666	825906
Observations (max)	1264746	380033	884713

Note: The table shows the average values of our key variables for the full sample (Column 1), those who had no politicians among the parents in the class (Column 2), and those who had at least one politician parent (Column 3).

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