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Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
, potential candidates compete in a contest to become their party's nominee. At the election stage, the nominated candidates … campaign by making non-binding promises to voters. Confirming the model's key predictions, we find in the experiment that …
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Policy experimentation, political competition, and heterogeneous beliefs
Millner, Antony; Ollivier, Hélène; Simon, Leo K. - 2014
future, thus avoiding facing competitive elections with an opponent very different from itself. The model thus demonstrates … that all incumbents can find it optimal to ‘over experiment’, relative to a counter-factual in which they are sure to be in …
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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...
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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985922
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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033428
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The politics of public service reform : experimental evidence from Liberia
Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron - 2023
This paper provides experimental evidence on the electoral effect of a large education reform in a developing democracy. Despite significantly improving school quality, the policy reduced the incumbent party's presidential vote share by 3 percentage points (10%). This does not imply that voters...
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Do voters reward politicians for education expenditures?
Assunção, Matheus; Estevan, Fernanda - In: Revista brasileira de economia : RBE ; publicação de … 76 (2022) 1, pp. 10-29
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Women's political power and environmental outcomes
Voucharas, Georgios; Xefteris, Dimitrios - Panepistēmio Kypru / Department of Economics - 2018
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Do political leaders impact economic freedom at the local level? : evidence from close elections
Raff, Zach; Swanson, Andrew; Zanzalari, Danielle - In: Public finance review : PFR 52 (2024) 5, pp. 610-642
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The beauty premium of politicians in office
Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2023
The beauty premium in politics shows that attractive politicians are more likely to get elected to office than less … attractive politicians, but little is known about whether beauty also shapes the behavior of members of parliament (MPs) once in …
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