between two potential policy outcomes of an election participate in large-scale elections when voting is costly? Using a …Altruistic punishment is a fundamental driver for cooperation in human interactions. In this paper, we expand our … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent …

regression discontinuity design with millions of observations suggests that advertising's impact on elections is largely due to …

mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It left voters more knowledgeable about candidates' proposed policies … and increased the salience of spending, but did not affect vote shares and turnout. Treated voters were more likely to be …

the "standard theory" that players have preferences only over their own mentary payoffs and that play will be in … with a simple game, this theory cannot be rejected at the 5% level of significance for another treatment with a more …