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This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape group decision-making outcomes. Groups …
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also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the …
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We leverage on important findings in social psychology to build a behavioral theory of protest vote. An individual develops a feeling of resentment if she loses income over time while richer people do not, or if she does not gain as others do, i.e. when her relative deprivation increases. In...
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We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior … change in voting behavior and we find no effects on aggregate electoral outcomes …
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We introduce a new dataset that includes quantitative harmonized indices of tax reforms based on qualitative information of about 900 Economic Surveys from the OECD and 37,000 tax-related news from the IBFD archives. The data set provides indicators on tax reforms for tax rates and tax bases,...
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therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations …
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Voters often express support for a candidate whose policy platforms differ from their ideal policy preferences. We argue that under these circumstance acts of expressing support can causally change voters’ policy preferences. We conceptualize our arguments in a theoretical model of policy...
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performance from lowering the minimum voting age from 18 to 16. Using a difference in differences research strategy, we find that … this voting age change reduced the net operating surplus by around 600NOK (€60) per capita. This finding is consistent with … (reduced net operating surplus) due to the extension of the youth voting franchise mainly appear in governments with low party …
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By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance sheet profiles may be perceived as non fungible in a controlled frictionless environment with no probabilistic attributes. A large majority of subjects indeed have a bias in...
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vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration … influences the succeeding education policy. More surprisingly, the prospect of voting on education policy also affects the … preceding integration decision. There are incentives for citizens to vote strategically for the institutional setting in which …
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