We study how reelection concerns affect reciprocity by elected leaders to the voters who elected them. If showing … reciprocity? We present a signalling model of candidate behavior, where we show that candidates may limit intrinsic reciprocity to … reelected may limit intrinsic reciprocity of an elected leader to the voters who put her in office, but does not eliminate it …

lifting) matter less when individuals are more patient and altruistic, or exhibit less negative reciprocity. To account for …

costly contracts or expensive reputations. Concurrently, experiments suggest that reciprocity is a potent substitute for law …

consistent with the data. Through counter-factual experiments, we find that while entitlements programs are sub-optimally large …