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Who runs? : honesty and self-selection into politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...
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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015
affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516456
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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985922
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Papa does preach : daughters and polarisation of attitudes toward abortion
Effenterre, Clémentine van - 2017
. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters decreases support for abortion law by 25% for right …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764664
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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: evidence from representative experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518240
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Committee search with ex-ante heterogeneous agents : theory and experimental evidence
Inukai, Keigo; Kawata, Keisuke; Sasaki, Masaru - 2017
perfectly and dominantly control the voting results of the committee search activities. The most important prediction is that … nonpivotal voters become less picky in committee search than in single-agent search, but that a pivotal voter's voting behavior … remains unchanged, regardless of the type of voting rules for the search. However, our experimental results did not support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647670
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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches
Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...
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Delegation to a group
Fehrler, Sebastian; Janas, Moritz - 2021
We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off between information acquisition and information aggregation. On the one hand, the expected benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549435
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872697
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Moral transgressions by groups: what drives individual voting behavior?
Feess, Eberhard; Kerzenmacher, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2020
different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression increases with the number of votes required for it … us to identify guilt sharing and preferences for consensual voting as empirically relevant and independent drivers of … voting behavior. …
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