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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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Mining and Gender Gaps in India
Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, James; Menon, Nidhiya; van der … - 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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How do voters respond to information? Evidence from a randomized campaign
Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - 2013
Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...
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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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Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
voting is driven partly by human self-interest. Money apparently makes people more right-wing. …
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - 2014
men or women. The impact of education on religiosity and voting preference is not working through migration, residential …
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Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo
Meier, Armando N.; Schmid, Lukas D.; Stutzer, Alois - 2016
Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 400 ballot propositions in Switzerland for the years 1958 to 2014 to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative...
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