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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...

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Policy Feedback and Civic Engagement: Evidence from the Finnish Basic Income Experiment

Hirvonen, Salomo; Schafer, Jerome; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

and subjective levels of political efficacy. On average, the intervention increases turnout in municipal elections by … weaken the link between income and turnout? We study a unique experiment in Finland, which randomly assigned a sizable group … replacing conditional unemployment benefits with unconditional basic income has large positive effects on actual voter turnout …

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Policy feedback and civic engagement : evidence from the Finnish basic income experiment

Hirvonen, Salomo; Schafer, Jerome; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023 - May 2023 (previous version November 2022)

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Why should majority voting be unfair?

Breitmoser, Yves; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - 2017

) which allow us to disentangle behaviors compatible with altruism, inequity aversion, and reference dependent altruism. Most …

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Did sanctions help Putin?

Peeva, Aleksandra - 2019

impact on voting. The US and the EU introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to Putin … the vote share in presidential elections between 2012 and 2018. Putin gained 1.54 percentage points at those polling … stations that had a sanctioned firm in immediate vicinity. Targeted sanctions imposition also affected voter turnout. The …

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Getting it right : communication, voting, and collective truth finding

Burdea, Valeria; Woon, Jonathan - 2023

We conduct an experiment in which groups are tasked with evaluating the truth of a set of politically relevant facts and statements, and we investigate whether communication improves information aggregation and the accuracy of group decisions. Our findings suggest that the effect of...

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Welfare-based altruism

Breitmoser, Yves; Vorjohann, Pauline - 2018

observations. Specifically, these axioms imply that interdependence of preferences ("altruism") results from concerns for the …-givers, altruistic givers, or social pressure givers and use welfare-based altruism to reliably predict giving, sorting, and taking …

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Delegation and recruitment in organizations: The slippery slope to "bad" leadership

Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022

We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...

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Selfish and Prospective. Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in … Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social …-in-differences strategy for identification. We find clear evidence of prospective pocketbook voting. Voters respond to campaign promises but …

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Returns to office in national and local politics

Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Tervio, Marko - 2013

We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal … elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal …

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