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Air pollution affects decision-making: evidence from the ballot box
Bellani, Luna; Ceolotto, Stefano; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2021
significantly affects voting behavior. An increase in the concentration of PM10 by 10μg/m3 - around two within-county standard …
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Adversarial economic preferences predict right-wing voting
Buser, Thomas - 2024
I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …
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Cognitive abilities and the demand for bad policy
Nunnari, Salvatore; Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2024
Rational choice theories assume that voters accurately assess the outcomes of policies. However, many important policies - such as regulating prices and introducing Pigouvian taxation - yield outcomes through indirect or equilibrium effects that may differ from their direct effects. Citizens may...
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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 private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
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The value of redistribution : natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions
Agüero, Jorge M.; Balcázar, Carlos Felipe; Maldonado … - 2017
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining test scores from over two million students and district-level administrative data on mining...
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Population growth and the tragedy of the commons : can trade prevent natural resource and welfare collapse?
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2024
Many developing countries depend crucially on open-access renewable natural resources (NR). Trade is generally viewed as hurting the long-term health of NR in commodity-exporting countries. I examine whether trade might be beneficial in the case of population growth. Dynamic general equilibrium...
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Mining and gender gaps in India
Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, James; Menon, Nidhiya; Rodgers, … - 2020
This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines on various measures of women's agency and health in...
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …
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An experimental study of voting with costly delay
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …
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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes
Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015
majority voting. Individuals vote according to their misperceived utility function. Consequently, excessive fat consumption is …
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