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Voting on punishment systems within a heterogeneous group
Noussair, Charles N.; Tan, Fangfang - 2009
productivity. Nevertheless, only a minority of sessions converge to this system, indicating a tendency for the voting process to …
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Assessing the extent of strategic manipulation: The average vote example
Renault, Régis; Trannoy, Alain - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 497-513
The average voting procedure reflects the weighted average of expressed opinions in [0,1]. Participants typically … taste is central enough, the range of possible values for the average voting outcome is narrower than the corresponding … range for majority voting. For instance, if the average taste is at 1/2, the limit equilibrium outcome is this value plus or …
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Who will be idol? The importance of social networks for winning on reality shows
Heizler, Odelia; Kimhi, Ayal - 2010
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...
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Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating
Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Chytilová, Julie; … - 2021
This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one's own group...
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The evolution of public spending on higher education in a democracy
Haupt, Alexander - 2005
This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an ensuing decline in subsidies. Growing public expenditures increase the future size of the higher income class and thus boost future demand for education. This demand shift implies...
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The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005876
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The political economy of higher education finance: how information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Wößmann, Ludger - 2019
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018227
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Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882567
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Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177554
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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the...
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