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Albrecht, James; Vroman, Susan; Anderson, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We consider the problem of sequential search when the decision to stop searching is made by a committee. We show that a symmetric stationary equilibrium exists and is unique given that the distribution of rewards is log concave. Committee members set a lower acceptance threshold than do...

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Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes

Shue, Kelly; Luttmer, Erzo F.P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

If voters are fully rational and have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. In this paper, we explore deviations from rational voting using quasirandom variation in candidate name placement on ballots from the 2003 California Recall Election. We find that...

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Ideology

Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...

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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...

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Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: The Czech Case

Jurajda, Štepán; Münich, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We measure the importance of candidate characteristics listed on ballots for a candidate's position on a slate, for preferential votes received by a candidate, and, ultimately, for getting elected. We focus on the effects of gender, various types of academic titles, and also several novel...

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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy

Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...

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Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...

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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David A.; Klor, Esteban F.; Miaari, Sami H.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...

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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State …

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Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes

Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature … associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one … between bribing and lobbying. We test our predictions using survey data for about 6000 firms in 26 countries. Our results …

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