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Incentives dominate selection: Chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019
The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099121
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Incentives dominate selection : chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019
The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286323
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Risk preference and child labour : econometric evidence
Frempong, Raymond Boadi; Stadelmann, David - 2020
The literature suggests that the household invests in the human capital of a child member not only for altruistic reasons but also as insurance against future income shocks. Hence, the allocation of the child's time between school and work is a function of the risk preference of the household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200935
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Electoral turnout during states of emergency and effects on incumbent vote share
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2020
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 …In March 2020, the second ballot of local elections in the German state of Bavaria was held under an official state of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306424
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Electoral Turnout During States of Emergency and Effects on Incumbent Vote Shares
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2021
prohibited and only postal voting was allowed. We contrast turnout of the first and second ballot in 2020 with the first and …Bavarian mayors are elected by majority rule in two-round (runoff) elections. Between the first and second ballot of … to fight the spread of Covid-19, including a shutdown of public life. For the second ballot, voting in person was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623078
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Electoral turnout during states of emergency and effects on incumbent vote share
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2020
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 …In March 2020, the second ballot of local elections in the German state of Bavaria was held under an official state of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242044
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Electoral turnout during states of emergency and effects on incumbent vote shares
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2021
prohibited and only postal voting was allowed. We contrast turnout of the first and second ballot in 2020 with the first and …Bavarian mayors are elected by majority rule in two-round (runoff) elections. Between the first and second ballot of … to fight the spread of Covid-19, including a shutdown of public life. For the second ballot, voting in person was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328610
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Risk preference and child labour: Econometric evidence
Frempong, Raymond Boadi; Stadelmann, David - 2020
The literature suggests that the household invests in the human capital of a child member not only for altruistic reasons but also as insurance against future income shocks. Hence, the allocation of the child's time between school and work is a function of the risk preference of the household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268458
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To swing or not to swing: An assessment of age and political cynicism of swing voting
Proulx, Damon; Savage, David; Stadelmann, David; … - 2021
The empirical question of voting preferences and how these may change (swing) is yet to be answered, as there is little … first-hand microeconomic evidence on swing voting. We focus on the interactions between voters' age and political cynicism …. Towards this end, we apply a stated and revealed preference framework to assess swing voting, using data from the Dutch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660588
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To swing or not to swing : an assessment of age and political cynicism of swing voting
Proulx, Damon; Savage, David; Stadelmann, David; … - 2021
The empirical question of voting preferences and how these may change (swing) is yet to be answered, as there is little … first-hand microeconomic evidence on swing voting. We focus on the interactions between voters' age and political cynicism …. Towards this end, we apply a stated and revealed preference framework to assess swing voting, using data from the Dutch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584277