The third paper investigates the role of beliefs on job choice in the labor market, and we find in an experiment that women of high productivity too often sort into jobs that would be ideal for workers of low productivity. We identify wrong productivity beliefs as the source of this detrimental...

Do democratically chosen rules lead to more cooperation and, hence, higher efficiency, than imposed rules? To discuss when such a "dividend of democracy" obtains, we review experimental studies in which material incentives remain stacked against cooperation (i.e., free-riding incentives prevail)...

The expression "cash-for-votes" describes a form of vote buying in which candidates for office pay individuals in exchange for their votes. That practice undermines the functioning of democracy but is pervasive in many parts of the world, especially in the Global South. We discuss estimates of...