voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe …, we study how the host country's turnout affects expatriates' electoral participation in the 2017 Chilean Presidential … election. We focus on the 2014 European Parliament election turnout in the district of the Chilean's geocoded residence and …

We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and … strongly influence participation and voting. However, social or expressive motives, such as stated altruism, environmental … pocketbook benefits do not explain voting, then voting is expressive. If the perceived probability of being pivotal is non …

We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and … strongly influence participation and voting. However, social or expressive motives, such as stated altruism, environmental … pocketbook benefits do not explain voting, then voting is expressive. If the perceived probability of being pivotal is non …

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and … allows quantifying monetary benefits associated with each ticket. We find that turnout is much higher among students who … benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …

expected net benefit from doing so. If this instrumental motive is relevant, then turnout should be higher in elections where … more is at stake. We test this prediction, by studying how turnout is affected by exogenous variation in governments …' financial flexibility to provide pork for their voters. By utilizing simultaneous elections for different offices, we identify a …

In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We … deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular …

expected net benefit from doing so. If this instrumental motive is relevant, then turnout should be higher in elections where … more is at stake. We test this prediction, by studying how turnout is affected by exogenous variation in governments …' financial flexibility to provide pork for their voters. By utilizing simultaneous elections for different offices, we identify a …