Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting … the choice of voting systems based on such theoretical concepts, in this paper, I ask which systems individuals actually …

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is … represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but … these abstract rules can usually not be implemented perfectly. To find voting systems that approximate these rules the so …

emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand … emigration from high-income countries we focus not only on factors that refer to individual characteristics, but also on the …, etc. Based on data about the emigration intentions of the Dutch population collected during the years 2004-2005 we …

voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe … exploit local transitory shocks to the cost of voting given by the rainfall on the day of the election. We find that migrants …

attaining a higher living standard and expected low job search costs abroad are strong forces that drive emigration intentions … migration behaviour. Both ties within the household with household members who have international migration experience and ties …

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration … remittances has a positive effect on emigration intentions of household members living in the country of origin. Therefore …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …

qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …

We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News …