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A Structural Model of Turnout and Voting in Multiple Elections
Degan, Arianna; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2004
In this paper, we propose a unified approach to study participation and voting in multiple elections. The theoretical … study turnout and voting in U.S. national (presidential and congressional) elections, and structurally estimate the model … using individual-level data for the 2000 elections. The estimated model replicates the patterns of abstention, selective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020644
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A Structural Model of Turnout and Voting in Multiple Elections
Degan, Arianna; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2006
This paper develops a unified approach to study participation and voting in multiple elections. The theoretical setting … turnout and voting in U.S. presidential and congressional elections. We structurally estimate the model using individual …-level data for the 2000 elections, and quantify the relationships between observed individual characteristics and unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126679
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A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers: Supplementary Materiel
Diermeier, Daniel; Keane, Michael; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2004
This paper contains additional details about the model in our paper “A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers” (Diermeier, Keane and Merlo (2004)), as well as the computational methods we use to solve and estimate the model, and the construction of the data set.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061913
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Do Citizens Vote Sincerely (If They Vote at All)? Theory and Evidence from U. S. National Elections
Degan, Arianna; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2004
explain observed patterns of participation and voting in U.S. national elections. We propose a unified model of turnout and … voting in presidential and congressional elections with heterogeneous voters. We estimate the model using individual level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061918
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A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers
Diermeier, Daniel; Keane, Michael; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2002
Theories in political economy depend critically on assumptions about motivations of politicians. Our analysis starts from the premise that politicians, like other economic agents, are rational individuals who make career decisions by comparing the expected returns of alternative choices. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109583
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A Structural Model of Turnout and Voting in Multiple Elections, Fourth Version
Degan, Arianna; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2007
This paper develops a unified approach to study participation and voting in multiple elections. The theoretical setting … turnout and voting in U.S. presidential and congressional elections. We structurally estimate the model using individual …-level data for the 2000 elections, and quantify the relationships between observed individual characteristics and unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109585
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Cooperation in Large Societies
Dilmé, Francesc - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2012
Consider the following situation involving two agents who belong to a large society. One of the agents needs help to avoid a big loss. The other agent may either incur a low cost to help him or do nothing. If agents do not recognize each other, providing incentives for socially optimal behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541088
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Cooperation in Large Societies, Second Version
Dilmé, Francesc - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2012
This paper investigates how cooperation can be sustained in large societies even in the presence of agents who never cooperate. In order to do this, we consider a large but finite society where in each period agents are randomly matched in pairs. Nature decides, within each match, which agent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791596
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Ashamed to be Selfish
Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2008
We study a two-stage choice problem, where alternatives are allocations between the decision maker (DM) and a passive recipient. The recipient observes choice behavior in stage two, while stage one choice is unobserved. Choosing selfishly in stage two, in the face of a fairer available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102091
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Ashamed to be Selfish, Second Version
Dillenberger, David; Sadowski, Philipp - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2008
We study a two-stage choice problem. In the first stage, the decision maker (DM) chooses a set of payoff-allocations between herself and a passive recipient. In the second stage, DM chooses an allocation from the set. The recipient is only aware of the second stage choice. Choosing selfishly in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109599