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interpersonal and interterritorial inequality. This rising inequality is seen as a root cause of populism. Yet, there is no … interpersonal inequality, and the rise of far-right populism in Europe and in the US. The analysis -conducted at small region level … populist voting on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, neither interpersonal inequality nor economic decline can explain …
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COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated. Understanding the effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of popular vaccination campaign strategies is therefore critical. In this paper, we report results from two studies that tested strategies...
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Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was...
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Governments increasingly use RCTs to test innovations before scale up. Yet, we know little about whether and how they incorporate the results of the experiments into policy-making. We follow up with 67 U.S. city departments which collectively ran 73 RCTs in collaboration with a national Nudge...
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for studying targeted interventions, particularly in areas of public goods provision, voting behaviour, and specific …
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Since campaign contributions reveal the actor’s party leanings, they take place in a domain of social observation and are likely to be subject to social effects. We conducted a field experiment to identify some of these social effects. We sent letters to 92,000 contributors from all U.S....
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Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism …
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, ideology, ethnicity, and gender. Exposure to these ads made individuals less likely to change their initial voting intentions …
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We study whether anger fuels the rise of populism. Anger as an emotion tends to act as a call to action against … individuals or groups that are blamed for negative situations, making it conducive to voting for populist politicians. Using a … a more complex sense of malaise and gloom, rather than anger per se, drives the rise in populism …
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. Surprisingly, when focusing on Germany and the U.S., populist voting is highest in less globalised regions with rather equal income … distributions. Addressing this puzzle, I ask how the regional variance in populist voting can be explained. In my answer, I … correlated with populist voting and that this effect is mitigated by public goods provision. Using county level data to develop …
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