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difference-in-difference setting to contrast turnout of the first and second ballot in 2020 with the first and second ballots … from previous elections. The state of emergency led to an increase in turnout of 10 percentage points. This increase in … turnout is robust and there is no relevant heterogeneity of the increase across municipalities. We argue that voting is an act …
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This paper proposes a rational model of voter participation by generalizing a common-value model of costless voting to include not just pivotal voting but also marginal voting incentives. A new strategic incentive for abstention arises in that case, to avoid the marginal voter's curse of pushing...
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The class of preferences over opportunity sets ("menus") rationalizable by underlying preferences over the alternatives is characterized for the general case in which the dataset is unrestricted. In particular, both the universal set of alternatives and the domain of menus over which preferences...
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We put forward a model of private goods with externalities. Agents derive benefit from communicating with each other. In order to communicate they need to have a language in common. Learning languages is costly. In this setting no individually rational and feasible Groves mechanism exists. We...
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