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A very important, yet unsettled, question is whether mandatory voting affects political participation. This paper … exploits a natural experiment to assess the causal impact of compulsory voting on turnout and, more importantly, to test … whether the impact is different across skill groups. I find that compulsory voting increases voter turnout by 18 percentage …
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We test a mechanism whereby groups are formed voluntarily, through the use of voting. These groups play a public …
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treatment) is a salient fairness principle in taxation that shapes voting on commodity taxes above and beyond concerns for …
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In the unique attainable equilibrium of a voting model with one minority candidate and two similarly appealing majority …
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Arguments regarding the existence of an American cultural divide are frequently placed in a religious context. This paper seeks to establish that, all politics aside, the American religious divide is real, that religious polarization is not a uniquely American phenomenon, and that religious...
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A group of actors, individuals or firms, can engage in collectively providing projects which may be costly or generating revenues and which may benefit some and harm others. Based on requirements of procedural fairness, we derive a bidding mechanism determining endogenously who participates in...
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This paper offers an information-based model of social interaction, and analyzes optimal investment and pricing of services that facilitate interaction in a duopoly. Agents have uncertainty over their preferences but are aware that they are correlated with others’, so there exists an incentive...
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I analyze a problem of project selection where two agents, privately informed of both the true value and their bias in favor of their alternatives, make non-verifiable proposals to an uninformed decision-maker. The analysis makes two contributions. First, I examine the consequences of preference...
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Using a common pool resource game protocol with voting we examine experimentally how cooperation varies with the level …. This suggests that in order for binding voting to overcome the tragedy of the commons in social dilemmas, it should ideally …
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We conduct an experiment to investigate (i) whether rotation in voting improves a committee's performance, and (ii) the … has important consequences: it ‘pays’ to be allowed to vote, as voting committee members earn significantly more than non-voting …
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