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Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are chosen under the veil of ignorance and whether there are...
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There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...
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incentives: the role of the social norm of a male breadwinner. 58 established cohabiting heterosexual and married couples (116 …
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The practice of child marriage is ubiquitous in developing countries, where one in three girls is married before the … age of 18. Although most developing countries have a legal minimum age of marriage, in practice marriage age is determined … and marriage behaviour in a setting with weak law enforcement. We do this by administering a randomised video …
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Despite improved access to education and socioeconomic conditions, child marriage remains high in several countries … the effectiveness of an entertainment-education short movie program targeted toward main child marriage actors …, adolescents, and parents to address norms and perceptions regarding the costs and benefits of child marriage. We conducted a …
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Rule compliance is an important way to achieve and sustain cooperation in large-scale societies. In this study, we investigate the impact of social identity on rule following behavior. First, using large-scale traffic violation data from a major city in China, we empirically showed that traffic...
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