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strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
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, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …
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strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
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strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
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Market exchange is subject to an endogenously-determined level of predation which impedes specialization and gains from trade. Utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in specialized production and careers in predation. Three types of equilibria may emerge, autarky (with no predation and no...
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Distributions of many variables of interest in developed economic and financial markets, including income and wealth …, exhibit heavy tails as in the case of Pareto or power laws. Many commonly used income and wealth inequality measures are very … on robust analysis of distributions and heavy-tailedness characteristics for data on income and wealth for the World …
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experimental lab in three different informational settings, and study the role of information in individual decision making. Our … truthful preference revelation. In addition, we find that information has an important effect on truthful behavior and … stability. Nevertheless, regarding efficiency, the Gale-Shapley mechanism is less sensitive to the amount of information …
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This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …
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During the Corona pandemic, access to reliable information is particularly relevant in order to be able to take … protective measures. However, migrants and refugees in transit and residence countries often lack such access to information …. This opens the opportunity for alternative sources of raising awareness and information. Corona Songs about COVID-19 and …
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have better information about the state of the world than voters. Three types of institutions are compared: direct …
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