A large body of research has shown that first-time voting experiences can have important effects on subsequent turnout, with salient elections boosting turnout later in life and non-salient ones suppressing it. We challenge this view. Following research on the context-dependent nature of habit...

Four field experiments examined the quantitative and qualitative forces influencing behaviors under consumer elective pricing called “shared social responsibility” (SSR, Gneezy, Gneezy, Nelson, & Brown, 2010). Under SSR consumers can pay what they want and a percentage of their payment goes...

This paper presents a model of consumer boycotts where the discrete choices of concerned consumers are represented as stochastic processes. Boycotts are interpreted as a form of voting where consumers are trying to shape the behavior of firms. We solve for the limiting distribution of the...