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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...

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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

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Psychologically-Based Voting with Uncertainty

Degan, Arianna; Li, Ming - 2021

We analyze a psychologically-based model of voter turnout in an election with common value and uncertainty. Our model yields distinctive comparative statics results. First, an increase in the proportion of informed citizens may cause the winning margin for the right candidate to either rise or...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2024

We investigate whether US House representatives favour special interest groups over constituents in periods of low media attention to politics. Analysing 666 roll calls from 2005 to 2018, we show that representatives are more likely to vote against their constituency's preferred position the...

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Does trade exposure explain anti-globalization votes?

Bouët, Antoine; Edo, Anthony; Emlinger, Charlotte - 2024

We investigate the local effects of trade exposure and immigration on voting behavior in France from 1988 to 2022. We … use the content of each candidate's manifesto to construct an anti-globalization voting index for each French presidential … products imported. While exposure to imports of final goods increases anti-globalization voting, exposure to imports of …

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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting

Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study … administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a reduction in ethnic voting when administrative regions become less …

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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

We show that the electorate’s preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191568

Measuring the difficulties in forming a coalition government

Hiller, Tobias - In: Games 14 (2023) 2, pp. 1-15

these difficulties. For this issue, we introduce a concept based on cooperative game theory which takes into account the …

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Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour

Upward, Richard; Wright, Peter - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2024

We provide new evidence on the effects of economic shocks on political support, voting behaviour and political opinions … of their observable characteristics, pre-existing political support and voting behaviour. We find consistent, long …

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Citizens or lobbies : who controls policy?

Roberti, Paolo - 2016

This paper analyses a model of electoral competition with lobbying, where candidates hold private information about their willingness to pander to lobbies, if elected. I show that this uncertainty induces risk-averse voters to choose candidates who implement policies biased in favor of the...

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