Shue, Kelly; Luttmer, Erzo F. P. - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 1 (2009) 1, pp. 229-57
If voters have negligible cognition costs, ballot layout should not affect election outcomes. We explore deviations from rational voting using quasi-random variation in candidate name placement on ballots from the 2003 California recall election. We find that minor candidates' vote shares almost...