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informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
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ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …
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We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters’ preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation …
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cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions … regular voter survey undertaken after national-level voting decisions in Switzerland. Among the socioeconomic characteristics …
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We consider an economy where decision maker(s) do not know the true production function for a public good. By using Bayes rule they can learn from experience. We show that the economy may learn the truth, but that it may also converge to an inefficient policy where no further inference is...
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features of the history of immigration into Austria to identify a causal effect of immigration on ERW voting results. We argue …
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What makes you a successful cooperator? Using data from the British television game show "Golden Balls" we analyze a prisoner's dilemma game and its pre-play. We find that players strategically select their partner for the PD, e.g., they bear in mind whether contestants lied. Players'...
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one furthest is worse off. This redistribution channel is independent from the ones previously noted in the literature …
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their voting behavior. The association between objective and subjective measures of inequality and redistribution vanishes … inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and …
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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is … balance against the economic explanation, which predicts more rather than less income redistribution in the United States … (which also characterize Switzerland) to redistribution; yet the Swiss share of transfers in the GDP is low. Behavioral …
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