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Temptation in vote-selling : evidence from a field experiment in the Philippines
Hicken, Allen; Leider, Stephen; Ravanilla, Nico; Yang, Dean - 2014
-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one's vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self … at the moment of voting, but not for past selves who anticipate the vote-sale. We also allow keeping or breaking promises … regarding vote-selling to affect utility. Voters who are at least partially sophisticated about their vote-selling temptation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361472
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Present-focused preferences and sin goods consumption at the extensive and intensive margins
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2020
, the strength of temptation and the cost of self-control do not affect the extensive margin. Hence, present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206092
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Estimating the laffer tax rate on capital income : cross-base responses matter!
Lefebvre, Marie-Noëlle; Lehmann, Etienne; Sicsic, Michaël - 2022
We theoretically express the Laffer tax rate on capital income as a function of the elasticities of capital income (the "direct" elasticity) and of labor income (the "cross" elasticity) with respect to the net-of-tax rate on capital income. We estimate these elasticities using salient capital...
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Risk, temptation, and efficiency in the one-shot prisoner's dilemma
Gächter, Simon; Lee, Kyeongtae; Sefton, Martin; Weber, … - 2021
) we vary three payoff indices. Indices of risk and temptation capture the unilateral incentives to defect against … non-student subject pool, which allows us to assess generalizability of results. In both studies we find that temptation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694148
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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany
Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023
Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
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Biased forecasts and voting : the Brexit referendum case
Bizzotto, Jacopo; Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2024 - This version: July 1, 2024
This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …
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Self control and intertemporal choice : evidence from glucose and depletion interventions
Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014
is an increase in subjects' attention to the decision, rather than their ability to resist the temptation to get money …
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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Optimal redistributive pensions and the cost of self-control
Bouchard St-Amant, Pier-André; Garon, Jean-Denis - 2014
individuals' welfare by altering how yielding to temptation (i.e. not saving, or saving less) is attractive. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391797
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Health club attendance, expectations and self-control
Garon, Jean-Denis; Masse, Alix; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2014
Using a unique dataset on health club attendance from Quebec, we look at the relationship between actual and expected attendance and how these relate to a reported measure of self-control problems at the time of contract signing. We find that a large majority of contract choices appear...
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