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Callander, Steven; Harstad, Bård - 2015

minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …

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Harnessing Reciprocity to Promote Cooperation and the Provisioning of Public Goods

Rand, David G.; Yoeli, Erez; Hoffman, Moshe - 2015

How can we maximize the common good? This is a central organizing question of public policy design, across political parties and ideologies. The answer typically involves the provisioning of public goods such as fresh air, national defense, and knowledge. Public goods are costly to produce but...

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Decentralized redistribution in a laboratory federation

Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - In: Journal of urban economics 93 (2016), pp. 49-59

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Citizens' trade-offs in state merger decisions : evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Blesse, Sebastian; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2019

Voters dealing with jurisdictional merger decisions face a trade-off between economies of scale and preference costs. Larger jurisdictions may offer cost advantages, yet the downside is that policies in larger units may be less aligned to voter preferences. Our study is the first to provide...

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Federalism and Mitigating Climate Change : The Merits of Flexibility, Experimentalism, and Dissonance

Reich, Johannes - 2021

Federalism is ostensibly misplaced to mitigate climate change as a global public concern as it is prone to import the … and procedures of Swiss federalism, this article attempts to provide a more nuanced assessment of the relationship between … laws designed to mitigate climate change and federalism. It seeks to demonstrate that federalism may support effective …

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Trial and error? : Reelection concerns and policy experimentation during the US welfare reform

Bernecker, Andreas; Boyer, Pierre C.; Gathmann, Christina - 2015

We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a political agency model, our empirical results suggest that...

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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform

Bernecker, Andreas - 2015

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Political Corruption and Social Trust : An Experimental Approach

Rothstein, Bo; Eek, Daniel - 2014

The main question addressed in this paper is how the great variation in the level of social trust in different countries can be explained. Most empirical research on this question has been based on survey data which has limitations when it comes to capturing the causal mechanisms. Building on...

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A field study of Chinese migrant workers' attitudes toward risks, strategic uncertainty, and competitiveness

Hao, Li; Houser, Daniel; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2014

Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one's ability to succeed in an uncertain and …

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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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