We study theoretically and empirically the redistributive effects of extending voting rights to non-citizens. Our model predicts a tax increase when newly enfranchised voters represent a sufficiently large fraction of voters. We study the 1975 Swedish electoral reform that extended voting rights...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Mr Smith Goes to the Movies -- Chapter 2: Scarcity, Conflicts, and Dystopia -- Chapter 3: Evil is the Root of all Money -- Chapter 4: Brokers, Bankers and Boiler Rooms -- Chapter 5: Evil, Inc -- Chapter 6: Disruptors -- Chapter 7: The Path of Workers -- Chapter 8: Women...

Recent literature has emphasized that individuals display varying levels of strategic reasoning. This paper presents ten years worth of experimental data from two countries exploring the existence and endogeneity of gender differences in strategic sophistication. We report results from two...

This paper studies gender differences in performance in a male‐dominated competitive environment chess tournaments. We find that the gender composition of chess games affects the behaviors of both men and women in ways that worsen the outcomes for women. Using a unique measure of within‐game...

Contests are situations in which a set of agents compete for a valuable object, rent or award. The present paper analyzes difference-form group contests, that is, contests fought among groups and where their probability of victory depends on the difference of their effective efforts. First, we...