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 …

Do changes in public infrastructure impact voter turnout? After reunification numerous high schools have been closed in … East Germany. Difference-in-differences estimations show that high school closures between 1992 and 2010 triggered a … decline in voter turnout in the following state election, suggesting a sense of resignation among voters. However, this effect …

-voter theory, we develop a model of costly instrumental voting in sequential elections with private information, where voters …This paper investigates whether the rare occurrence of a local election ending in a tie or being decided by a single … vote generates informational spill-overs on nearby localities' subsequent elections. First, based on the pivotal …

institutions. We do so by exploiting the randomness in the timing of landmine explosions relative to election days, comparing the … electoral outcomes of voting polls located close to a pre-election explosion with those of polls near a post-election blast. We …