We empirically test whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) engages in ethnic prejudice against Chinese in its prosecutorial decisions under the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996. Using data of EEA cases from November 1996 to June 2021, we conduct Becker’s outcome test for evidence of...

In this paper we address the following questions: (i) To what extent is the hypothesis that voters vote sincerely testable or falsifiable? And (ii) in environments where the hypothesis is falsifiable, to what extent is the observed behavior of voters consistent with sincere voting? We show that...

In this paper we address the following question: To what extent is the hypothesis that voters vote quot;ideologicallyquot; (i.e., they always vote for the candidate who is ideologically quot;closestquot; to them) testable or falsifiable? We show that using data only on how individuals vote in a...

This paper develops a unified approach to study participation and voting in multiple elections. The theoretical setting combines an quot;uncertain-voterquot; model of turnout with a spatial model of voting behavior. We apply our framework to the study of turnout and voting in U.S. presidential...

This paper develops a unified approach to study participation and voting in multiple elections. The theoretical setting combines an quot;uncertain-voterquot; model of turnout with a spatial model of voting behavior. We apply our framework to the study of turnout and voting in U.S. presidential...

In this paper we address the following question: To what extent is the hypothesis that voters vote sincerely testable or falsifiable? We show that using data only on how individuals vote in a single election, the hypothesis that voters vote sincerely is irrefutable, regardless of the number of...

In this paper, we propose a unified approach to study participation and voting in multiple elections. The theoretical framework combines an quot;uncertain-voterquot; model of turnout with a spatial model of voting behavior. We apply our framework to study turnout and voting in U.S. national...