intuition using Dictator Games in a lab-in-the-field experiment involving a sample of more than 1,000 individuals in Kenya and …, we compare results obtained across lab rounds in Kenya taking place right before the country’s 2013 national elections … and one eight months prior and find that selfishness is greater in the lab round more proximate to the election. Our …

year of a gubernatorial election, the elasticity of investment to the eventual margin of victory is 0.027. Both the …

year of a gubernatorial election, the elasticity of investment to the eventual margin of victory is 0.027. Both the …

This paper documents that surprise election outcomes - measured as deviations between realised vote shares and expected … vote shares based on a newly constructed dataset of opinion polls and party and candidate vote shares close to election day … higher surprise is associated with a 0.37 percentage point lower year-on-year growth rate one year after the election. These …

announcements that are made during the pre-election periods, thereby leading to a lower likelihood of “tax news shocks”. We also …

in tax base and rate, and for various types of taxes. We also find that the pre-election decrease in the likelihood of …

suggest that social norms can change rapidly as a result of election outcomes. We explore this conjecture using a controlled … situations in which no rule has been elected. In the absence of an election, sharing is widely considered socially appropriate … appropriate. This power prevails, albeit in weaker form, even if the election is subject to controversial practices such as vote …