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This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new … turmoil. The voting response to import exposure can entirely be explained by the labor market adjustments to import exposure …
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We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the Heckit and of the bounding approach of Lee (2009). As a substitute for the instrument needed in sample selectivity correction models, we use information on the number of attempts that were...
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This paper starts from a review of RCT studies in development economics, and documents many studies largely ignore attrition once attrition rates are found balanced between treatment arms. The paper analyzes the implications of attrition for the internal and external validity of the results of a...
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This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …
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How do corruption outcomes, such as the embezzlement of public funds, depend on the method by which public decision makers are selected? Through an experiment with 472 groups of citizens in Burkina Faso, this paper compares elected and randomly appointed leaders along three dimensions: The...
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, closed-list voting rules: the (official) single-vote rule, a split-my-vote rule, and a list-approval rule. The paper analyzes … leads to voters' decisions that are more often strategic but also more often sincere. Sincere voting and strategic voting … concepts of “sincere” and “strategic” voting are not always sufficient to render this complexity …
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answering general knowledge questions and then eliminate one contestant by plurality voting without prior communication. We find …
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We test the turnout predictions of the standard two-party, private value, costly voting model through a large … find partial evidence of selfish instrumental voting. Participants with a higher opportunity cost are less likely to vote …
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In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran an incentivized experiment with a large representative sample of the Spanish population. Our participants took six decisions that elicited their social preferences. Their...
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