This pattern persists even when accounting for tenure, direct mandate, or district age composition. These factors do not curb young MPs’ commitment to youth issues, highlighting how central youth representation is to their work. (6/7)

Testing different age cut-offs, I find MPs under 40 speak on youth issues far more often than older colleagues. Forty may not seem young, but in parliament it is. With so few young MPs in the 2013–2017 Bundestag, this pattern may shift as future legislatures get younger. (5/7)

To approximate youth interests, I compared press releases from both youth and civil society organisations. Using keyless scores, I created an inductive dictionary of youth-specific terms that captures youth interests. (4/7)