equilibrium predictions. -- Redistribution ; double auction ; elections ; lobbying … elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …

positions of political power. We exploit evidence from Italian local elections where, in a context of rapidly increasing women …

election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … elections and control variables on demographics and public goods provision to construct a unique panel data set for 16 large … districts. We find that riots occurring in the year preceding an election increases the vote share of the Bharatiya Janata Party …

the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify the effects of a shift in political power on one of the most consequential …

-immigration politics on school bullying. We use variations in the timing of municipal elections in Italy and focus on the effect of Lega … Nord, a far-right party, with a strong anti-immigration platform. We demonstrate that in municipalities where elections …, while they are absent for municipalities in which Lega Nord has little support, where no elections occurred and for native …

and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … election relative to an analogous impact for men who closely win or lose a state legislature election. We find that the effect …

There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous … comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …

political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …). In presidential elections, counties with greater trade exposure shifted towards the Republican candidate (a rightward …