The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing …

a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging—one with higher subjective well-being for men. …

obtained by gender-neutral voluntary schemes for taxing households. Fourth, the tax would further undermine marriage. …

parties over time as the two main parties diverged in their stances on this issue. We find that voting for a given political …, social, and economic attitudes in 1997. These findings are stronger for highly partisan political issues, and are robust to …

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity … adaptation to the attitudes of the majority population closes the immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity, while stronger … commitment to the home country preserves it. As risk attitudes are behaviorally relevant, and vary by ethnic origin, our results …

How does implementing harsh economic reforms influence voting behaviour? And how do the patterns of political support …-economic characteristics, such as age and education - tend to have a stable impact on voting behaviour over time, economic outcomes, such as …