NBER Papers in JEL Code D7: Microeconomics - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making

2022
w29852 Abhay Aneja
Guo Xu

Strengthening State Capacity: Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age
w29805 Nikolaj Broberg
Vincent Pons
Clemence Tricaud

The Impact of Campaign Finance Rules on Candidate Selection and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from France
w29797 Andrew D. Foster
Mark R. Rosenzweig

Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development
w29791 Stephen B. Billings
Hugh Macartney
Geunyong Park
John D. Singleton

Self-Interest in Public Service: Evidence from School Board Elections
w29766 Benjamin Marx
Vincent Pons
Vincent Rollet

Electoral Turnovers
w29759 Fan-chin Kung
Ping Wang
Quan Wen

Group Corruption via Sequential Bargaining in a Hierarchical Organization
w29688 Hanming Fang
Jing Wu
Rongjie Zhang
Li-An Zhou

Understanding the Resurgence of the SOEs in China: Evidence from the Real Estate Sector
w29686 Beatrice Ferrario
Stefanie Stantcheva

Eliciting People's First-Order Concerns: Text Analysis of Open-Ended Survey Questions
w29681 Kei Kawai
Takeaki Sunada

Estimating Candidate Valence
w29667 Marina Azzimonti
Nirvana Mitra

Political Constraints and Sovereign Default
w29627 Emanuele Colonnelli
Spyridon Lagaras
Jacopo Ponticelli
Mounu Prem
Margarita Tsoutsoura

Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil
2021
w29583 Alon Bergman
Matthew Grennan
Ashley Swanson

Lobbying Physicians: Payments from Industry and Hospital Procurement of Medical Devices
w29557 Pëllumb Reshidi
Alessandro Lizzeri
Leeat Yariv
Jimmy H. Chan
Wing Suen

Individual and Collective Information Acquisition: An Experimental Study
w29525 Jiwon Choi
Ilyana Kuziemko
Ebonya L. Washington
Gavin Wright

Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA
w29514 Michael Becher
Nicolas Longuet Marx
Vincent Pons
Sylvain Brouard
Martial Foucault
Vincenzo Galasso
Eric Kerrouche
Sandra León Alfonso
Daniel Stegmueller

COVID-19, Government Performance, and Democracy: Survey Experimental Evidence from 12 Countries
w29506 Samuel Bazzi
Andreas Ferrara
Martin Fiszbein
Thomas P. Pearson
Patrick A. Testa

The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right
w29491 Paul J. Eliason
Riley J. League
Jetson Leder-Luis
Ryan C. McDevitt
James W. Roberts

Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud
w29474 Elliott Ash
Sharun Mukand
Dani Rodrik

Economic Interests, Worldviews, and Identities: Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics
w29458 Rafael Di Tella
Ramiro H. Gálvez
Ernesto Schargrodsky

Does Social Media cause Polarization? Evidence from access to Twitter Echo Chambers during the 2019 Argentine Presidential Debate
w29402 Shaoda Wang
David Y. Yang

Policy Experimentation in China: the Political Economy of Policy Learning
w29389 Sandro Ambuehl
B. Douglas Bernheim

Interpreting the Will of the People: A Positive Analysis of Ordinal Preference Aggregation
w29308 Sarah Cohodes
James J. Feigenbaum

Why Does Education Increase Voting? Evidence from Boston's Charter Schools
w29297 Christopher Ksoll
Rocco Macchiavello
Ameet Morjaria

Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry
w29245 Alberto Alesina
Matteo F. Ferroni
Stefanie Stantcheva

Perceptions of Racial Gaps, their Causes, and Ways to Reduce Them
w29230 Filipe R. Campante
Ruben Durante
Andrea Tesei

Media and Social Capital
w29182 Meng Miao
Jacopo Ponticelli
Yi Shao

Eclipses and the Memory of Revolutions: Evidence from China
w29163 Timothy J. Besley
Robin Burgess
Adnan Khan
Guo Xu

Bureaucracy and Development
w29157 Michal Bauer
Jana Cahlíková
Julie Chytilová
Gérard Roland
Tomas Zelinsky

Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating
w29120 Matilde Bombardini
Olimpia Cutinelli Rendina
Francesco Trebbi

Lobbying Behind the Frontier
w29058 Gordon Dahl
Runjing Lu
William Mullins

Partisan Fertility and Presidential Elections
w29036 Andrey Malenko
Nadya Malenko
Chester S. Spatt

Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice
w29020 Marco Gambaro
Valentino Larcinese
Riccardo Puglisi
James M. Snyder Jr.

The Revealed Demand for Hard vs. Soft News: Evidence from Italian TV Viewership
w29005 Laurent Bouton
Aniol Llorente-Saguer
Antonin Macé
Dimitrios Xefteris

Voting in Shareholders Meetings
w28965 Alvaro Calderon
Vasiliki Fouka
Marco Tabellini

Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
w28939 Paula Onuchic
Debraj Ray

Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects
w28887 Sushil Bikhchandani
David Hirshleifer
Omer Tamuz
Ivo Welch

Information Cascades and Social Learning
w28857 Judson Boomhower
When Do Environmental Externalities Have Electoral Consequences? Evidence from Fracking
w28849 Thomas Fujiwara
Karsten Müller
Carlo Schwarz

The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States
w28749 Francesco Bianchi
Roberto Gomez Cram
Howard Kung

Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices
w28737 Casey B. Mulligan
The Backward Art of Slowing the Spread? Congregation Efficiencies during COVID-19
w28714 Gauthier Marchais
Christian M. Mugaruka
Raúl Sanchez de la Sierra
David Qihang Wu

The Forging of a Rebel
w28683 Frederico Finan
Maurizio Mazzocco

Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles
w28674 Alessandra Casella
Jeffrey Guo
Michelle Jiang

Minority Turnout and Representation under Cumulative Voting. An Experiment.
w28673 Jorg L. Spenkuch
Edoardo Teso
Guo Xu

Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations
w28667 Ying Bai
Ruixue Jia
Jiaojiao Yang

The Nexus of Elites and War Mobilization
w28666 Apostolos Filippas
John J. Horton

The Production and Consumption of Social Media
w28653 Antony Millner
Geoffrey Heal

Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting
w28590 Casey B. Mulligan
The Value of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
w28547 Ruixue Jia
Xiaohuan Lan
Gerard Padró I Miquel

Doing Business in China: Parental Background and Government Intervention Determine Who Owns Businesses
w28491 Jean Beuve
Marian W. Moszoro
Pablo T. Spiller

Contractual Rigidity and Political Contestability: Revisiting Public Contract Renegotiations
w28397 Francesco Decarolis
Raymond Fisman
Paolo Pinotti
Silvia Vannutelli
Yongxiang Wang

Gender and Bureaucratic Corruption: Evidence from Two Countries
w28347 Marco Battaglini
Chaos and Unpredictability in Dynamic Social Problems
2020
w28301 Marta A. Santamaría
Jaume Ventura
Uğur Yeşilbayraktar

Borders within Europe
w28299 Zach Y. Brown
Eduardo Montero
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments
w28297 Sebastian Ottinger
Nico Voigtländer

History's Masters: The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance
w28296 Nathan J. Canen
Chad Kendall
Francesco Trebbi

Political Parties as Drivers of U.S. Polarization: 1927-2018
w28291 Michael Lokshin
Vladimir Kolchin
Martin Ravallion

Scarred but Wiser: World War 2's COVID Legacy
w28209 Francesco Decarolis
Raymond Fisman
Paolo Pinotti
Silvia Vannutelli

Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement: Evidence from Italian Government Contracting
w28137 Alessandra Casella
Evan Friedman
Manuel Perez Archila

Mediating Conflict in the Lab
w28093 Eric Budish
Maximize Utility subject to R≤1: A Simple Price-Theory Approach to Covid-19 Lockdown and Reopening Policy
w28049 Alison Andrew
Orazio Attanasio
Britta Augsburg
Jere Behrman
Monimalika Day
Pamela Jervis
Costas Meghir
Angus Phimister

Mothers' Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation
w28044 Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Michael Weber

Political Polarization and Expected Economic Outcomes
w28043 James M. Snyder Jr.
Hasin Yousaf

Making Rallies Great Again: The Effects of Presidential Campaign Rallies on Voter Behavior, 2008-2016
w28042 Sylvain Chassang
Lucia Del Carpio
Samuel Kapon

Using Divide and Conquer to Improve Tax Collection: Theory and Laboratory Evidence
w27998 Enrico Cantoni
Vincent Pons

Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the U.S.
w27989 Asaf Bernstein
Stephen B. Billings
Matthew Gustafson
Ryan Lewis

Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Change Risk
w27981 Renee Bowen
Ilwoo Hwang
Stefan Krasa

Agenda-Setter Power Dynamics: Learning in Multi-Issue Bargaining
w27979 Alexander W. Butler
Bruce I. Carlin
Alan D. Crane
Boyang Liu
James P. Weston

The Value of Social Status
w27949 Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin

The Political Economics of Non-democracy
w27902 Jeffrey Clemens
Michael R. Strain

Public Policy and Participation in Political Interest Groups: An Analysis of Minimum Wages, Labor Unions, and Effective Advocacy
w27893 Sara Lowes
Eduardo Montero

Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State
w27854 Daron Acemoglu
Giuseppe De Feo
Giacomo De Luca
Gianluca Russo

War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism: An Empirical Exploration
w27852 Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin

Institutional Change and Institutional Persistence
w27822 Marco Battaglini
Valerio Leone Sciabolazza
Eleonora Patacchini

Abstentions and Social Networks in Congress
w27743 Alessandra Casella
Antonin Macé

Does Vote Trading Improve Welfare?
w27699 Stefanie Stantcheva
Understanding Tax Policy: How Do People Reason?
w27678 Michael Callen
Saad Gulzar
Syed Ali Hasanain
Muhammad Yasir Khan
Arman B. Rezaee

Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
w27651 Paola Giuliano
Romain Wacziarg

Who Voted for Trump? Populism and Social Capital
w27628 Hanming Fang
Chang Liu
Li-An Zhou

Window Dressing in the Public Sector: A Case Study of China's Compulsory Education Promotion Program
w27557 Marco Battaglini
Forrest W. Crawford
Eleonora Patacchini
Sida Peng

A Graphical Lasso Approach to Estimating Network Connections: The Case of U.S. Lawmakers
w27511 Benjamin Enke
Ricardo Rodríguez-Padilla
Florian Zimmermann

Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology
w27504 Hani Mansour
Daniel I. Rees
James M. Reeves

Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
w27498 Massimo Pulejo
Pablo Querubín

Electoral Concerns Reduce Restrictive Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w27497 Chun-Fang Chiang
Jason M. Kuo
Megumi Naoi
Jin-Tan Liu

What Do Voters Learn from Foreign News? Emulation, Backlash, and Public Support for Trade Agreements
w27463 Giovanni Facchini
Brian G. Knight
Cecilia Testa

The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act
w27456 Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan
Monica Martinez-Bravo

Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil
w27433 Enrico Cantoni
Vincent Pons

Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy
w27359 Vincenzo Galasso
Vincent Pons
Paola Profeta
Michael Becher
Sylvain Brouard
Martial Foucault

Gender Differences in COVID-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries
w27302 Stephen B. Billings
Eric Chyn
Kareem Haggag

The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity
w27301 Prateik Dalmia
Allan Drazen
Erkut Y. Ozbay

Reciprocity versus Reelection
w27288 Leonardo Bursztyn
Ingar K. Haaland
Aakaash Rao
Christopher P. Roth

Disguising Prejudice: Popular Rationales as Excuses for Intolerant Expression
w27277 Georgy Egorov
Ruben Enikolopov
Alexey Makarin
Maria Petrova

Divided We Stay Home: Social Distancing and Ethnic Diversity
w27238 Paola Giuliano
Marco Tabellini

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
w27237 Andrey Simonov
Szymon K. Sacher
Jean-Pierre H. Dubé
Shirsho Biswas

The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic
w27188 Erica Bosio
Simeon Djankov
Edward L. Glaeser
Andrei Shleifer

Public Procurement in Law and Practice
w27187 Chad D. Cotti
Bryan Engelhardt
Joshua Foster
Erik T. Nesson
Paul S. Niekamp

The Relationship between In-Person Voting and COVID-19: Evidence from the Wisconsin Primary
w27032 Jian Chu
Raymond Fisman
Songtao Tan
Yongxiang Wang

Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors
w26946 Hunt Allcott
Levi Boxell
Jacob C. Conway
Matthew Gentzkow
Michael Thaler
David Y. Yang

Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus Pandemic
w26913 Louis Kaplow
Scott Duke Kominers

On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout
w26897 Filipe R. Campante
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin
Ruben Durante

The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the U.S.
w26848 Leopoldo Fergusson
Carlos A. Molina
James A. Robinson

The Weak State Trap
w26825 Francesco Giavazzi
Felix Iglhaut
Giacomo Lemoli
Gaia Rubera

Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties: Analyzing Text from Twitter
w26757 Marco Battaglini
Rebecca B. Morton
Eleonora Patacchini

Social Groups and the Effectiveness of Protests
w26744 Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar

Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
w26733 Oriana Bandiera
Michael Carlos Best
Adnan Qadir Khan
Andrea Prat

The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
w26720 Alberto F. Alesina
Davide Furceri
Jonathan D. Ostry
Chris Papageorgiou
Dennis P. Quinn

Structural Reforms and Elections: Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset
w26675 Alberto F. Alesina
Armando Miano
Stefanie Stantcheva

The Polarization of Reality
w26669 Levi Boxell
Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse M. Shapiro

Cross-Country Trends in Affective Polarization
w26656 Haoyuan Ding
Hanming Fang
Shu Lin
Kang Shi

Equilibrium Consequences of Corruption on Firms: Evidence from China's Anti-Corruption Campaign
w26654 Antoine Camous
Russell Cooper

Political Activism and the Provision of Dynamic Incentives
2019
w26599 Riako Granzier
Vincent Pons
Clémence Tricaud

The Large Effects of a Small Win: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates
w26572 Caroline Le Pennec
Vincent Pons

How Do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multi-Country Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates
w26567 Leonardo Bursztyn
Georgy Egorov
Ruben Enikolopov
Maria Petrova

Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia
w26515 Eric Chyn
Kareem Haggag

Moved to Vote: The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhoods on Political Participation
w26487 M. Keith Chen
Kareem Haggag
Devin G. Pope
Ryne Rohla

Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data
w26473 Gino Gancia
Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
Jaume Ventura

A Theory of Economic Unions
w26440 Ethan Kaplan
Fernando Saltiel
Sergio S. Urzúa

Voting for Democracy: Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation
w26431 Julien Labonne
Sahar Parsa
Pablo Querubín

Political Dynasties, Term Limits and Female Political Empowerment: Evidence from the Philippines
w26409 Gene M. Grossman
Elhanan Helpman

Electoral Competition with Fake News
w26404 Guillaume R. Fréchette
Alessandro Lizzeri
Jacopo Perego

Rules and Commitment in Communication: an Experimental Analysis
w26333 Sebastian Edwards
On Latin American Populism, And Its Echoes Around the World
w26321 Rafael Di Tella
Sebastian Galiani
Ernesto Schargrodsky

Persuasive Propaganda during the 2015 Argentine Ballotage
w26304 Namrata Kala
The Impacts of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes
w26293 Christopher Blattman
Horacio Larreguy
Benjamin Marx
Otis R. Reid

Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda
w26241 Raúl Duarte
Frederico Finan
Horacio Larreguy
Laura Schechter

Brokering Votes With Information Spread Via Social Networks
w26160 Katherine Casey
Abou Bakarr Kamara
Niccoló Meriggi

An Experiment in Candidate Selection
w26146 Soren T. Anderson
Ioana Marinescu
Boris Shor

Can Pigou at the Polls Stop Us Melting the Poles?
w26141 Jaume Ventura
Sharing a Government
w26045 Fo Kodjo Dzinyefa Aflagah
Tanguy Bernard
Angelino Viceisza

Cheap Talk and Coordination in the Lab and in the Field: Collective Commercialization in Senegal
w25988 Marco Battaglini
Eleonora Patacchini
Edoardo Rainone

Endogenous Social Connections in Legislatures
w25980 Samuel Bazzi
Robert A. Blair
Christopher Blattman
Oeindrila Dube
Matthew Gudgeon
Richard Merton Peck

The Promise and Pitfalls of Conflict Prediction: Evidence from Colombia and Indonesia
w25949 Laurent Bouton
Jorge Gallego
Aniol Llorente-Saguer
Rebecca Morton

Runoff Elections in the Laboratory
w25925 Filipe R. Campante
Davin Chor
Bingjing Li

The Political Economy Consequences of China's Export Slowdown
w25918 Sylvain Chassang
Christian Zehnder

Secure Survey Design in Organizations: Theory and Experiments
w25916 Brian Knight
Ana Tribin

Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela
w25901 Hanming Fang
Linke Hou
Mingxing Liu
Lixin Colin Xu
Pengfei Zhang

Factions, Local Accountability, and Long-Term Development: Theory and Evidence
w25881 Joyee Deb
Aniko Oery
Kevin R. Williams

Aiming for the Goal: Contribution Dynamics of Crowdfunding
w25880 Emily Breza
Supreet Kaur
Nandita Krishnaswamy

Propping Up the Wage Floor: Collective Labor Supply without Unions
w25835 Stefano Gagliarducci
M. Daniele Paserman
Eleonora Patacchini

Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability
w25785 Ingvild Almås
Maximilian Auffhammer
Tessa Bold
Ian Bolliger
Aluma Dembo
Solomon M. Hsiang
Shuhei Kitamura
Edward Miguel
Robert Pickmans

Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress
w25770 David Altig
Alan J. Auerbach
Patrick C. Higgins
Darryl R. Koehler
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Michael Leiseca
Ellyn Terry
Yifan Ye

Did the 2017 Tax Reform Discriminate against Blue State Voters?
w25766 Alberto Ciancio
Camilo García-Jimeno

The Political Economy of Immigration Enforcement: Conflict and Cooperation under Federalism
w25759 Julian Kolev
Yuly Fuentes-Medel
Fiona Murray

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation
w25724 Pedro Dal Bó
Andrew Foster
Kenju Kamei

The Democracy Effect: a Weights-Based Identification Strategy
w25716 Christian Dippel
Michael Poyker

How Common are Electoral Cycles in Criminal Sentencing?
w25715 Christian Dippel
Michael Poyker

Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing?
w25693 David Atkin
Eve Colson-Sihra
Moses Shayo

How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
w25683 Samuel Bazzi
Arya Gaduh
Alexander D. Rothenberg
Maisy Wong

Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building
w25664 Marco Battaglini
Coalition Formation in Legislative Bargaining
w25601 Christian Dippel
Political Parties Do Matter in U.S. Cities ... For Their Unfunded Pensions
w25522 Enrico Cantoni
Vincent Pons

Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008-2018
w25510 Alessandra Casella
Luis Sanchez

Storable Votes and Quadratic Voting. An Experiment on Four California Propositions
w25503 Francesco Maria Esposito
Diego Focanti
Justine S. Hastings

Effects of Photo ID Laws on Registration and Turnout: Evidence from Rhode Island
w25501 Klenio Barbosa
Fernando V. Ferreira

Occupy Government: Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Sector Performance
2018
w25348 Gene M. Grossman
Elhanan Helpman

Identity Politics and Trade Policy
w25298 Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar
Jeffrey Weaver

Improving Last-Mile Service Delivery using Phone-Based Monitoring
w25219 Barry Eichengreen
Rebecca Mari
Gregory Thwaites

Will Brexit Age Well? Cohorts, Seasoning and the Age-Leave Gradient, Past, Present and Future
w25205 Garance Genicot
Laurent Bouton
Micael Castanheira

Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions
w25192 Brian Beach
Daniel B. Jones
Tate Twinam
Randall Walsh

Minority Representation in Local Government
w25151 Samuel Bazzi
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick
Benjamin Marx

The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia
w25136 Ufuk Akcigit
Salomé Baslandze
Francesca Lotti

Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics
w25109 David A. Matsa
Amalia R. Miller

Who Votes for Medicaid Expansion? Lessons from Maine's 2017 Referendum
w25077 Simone Moriconi
Giovanni Peri
Riccardo Turati

Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives: Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016
w25033 Renee Bowen
Vincent Anesi

Policy Experimentation, Redistribution and Voting Rules
w24900 Lubos Pastor
Pietro Veronesi

Inequality Aversion, Populism, and the Backlash Against Globalization
w24888 Eric Arias
Horacio Larreguy
John Marshall
Pablo Querubín

Priors rule: When do Malfeasance Revelations Help or Hurt Incumbent Parties?
w24879 Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan
Nicholas Y. Li
Laura Schechter

Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay
w24798 Roland Bénabou
Armin Falk
Jean Tirole

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
w24785 Cesi Cruz
Philip Keefer
Julien Labonne
Francesco Trebbi

Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises
w24783 Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan

Progress and Perspectives in the Study of Political Selection
w24770 Randall Akee
William Copeland
E. Jane Costello
John B. Holbein
Emilia Simeonova

Family Income and the Intergenerational Transmission of Voting Behavior: Evidence from an Income Intervention
w24739 Giovanni Maggi
Monika Mrázová
Peter Neary

Choked By Red Tape? The Political Economy of Wasteful Trade Barriers
w24733 Alberto Alesina
Armando Miano
Stefanie Stantcheva

Immigration and Redistribution
w24704 Sascha O. Becker
Irena Grosfeld
Pauline Grosjean
Nico Voigtländer
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers
w24700 Germán Gutiérrez
Thomas Philippon

How European Markets Became Free: A Study of Institutional Drift
w24656 Christian Dippel
Stephan Heblich

Leadership and Social Movements: The Forty-Eighters in the Civil War
w24638 Haris Tabakovic
Thomas G. Wollmann

From Revolving Doors to Regulatory Capture? Evidence from Patent Examiners
w24631 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Tho Pham
Oleksandr Talavera

Social Media, Sentiment and Public Opinions: Evidence from #Brexit and #USElection
w24630 Klaus Desmet
Romain Wacziarg

The Cultural Divide
w24627 Francisco Espinosa
Debraj Ray

Noisy Agents
w24625 Samuel Bazzi
Matthew Gudgeon

The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions
w24611 Daron Acemoglu
Ali Cheema
Asim I. Khwaja
James A. Robinson

Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan
w24535 Christian Leuz
Evidence-Based Policymaking: Promise, Challenges and Opportunities for Accounting and Financial Markets Research
w24533 Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
Ugo Troiano

Social Capital, Government Expenditures and Growth
w24495 Camilo García-Jimeno
Angel Iglesias
Pinar Yildirim

Women, Rails and Telegraphs: An Empirical Study of Information Diffusion and Collective Action
w24482 Alexandra C. Hartman
Robert A. Blair
Christopher Blattman

Engineering Informal Institutions: Long-run Impacts of Alternative Dispute Resolution on Violence and Property Rights in Liberia
w24467 Sharun Mukand
Dani Rodrik

The Political Economy of Ideas: On Ideas Versus Interests in Policymaking
w24462 Marina Azzimonti
Marcos Fernandes

Social Media Networks, Fake News, and Polarization
w24459 Alexis Antoniades
Charles W. Calomiris

Mortgage Market Credit Conditions and U.S. Presidential Elections
w24442 Marco Battaglini
Valerio Leone Sciabolazza
Eleonora Patacchini

Effectiveness of Connected Legislators
w24425 Xiangjun Ma
John McLaren

A Swing-State Theorem, with Evidence
w24413 Laurent Bouton
Micael Castanheira
Allan Drazen

A Theory of Small Campaign Contributions
w24383 Adnan Q. Khan
Asim Ijaz Khwaja
Benjamin A. Olken

Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings
w24374 Daniel M. Hungerman
Kevin Rinz
Tim Weninger
Chungeun Yoon

Political Campaigns and Church Contributions
w24354 David C. Chan
Jr
Michael J. Dickstein

Industry Input in Policymaking: Evidence from Medicare
w24323 Julie Berry Cullen
Nicholas Turner
Ebonya L. Washington

Political Alignment, Attitudes Toward Government and Tax Evasion
w24311 Vanya Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

How Persistent Low Expected Returns Alter Optimal Life Cycle Saving, Investment, and Retirement Behavior
w24309 Achyuta Adhvaryu
James E. Fenske
Gaurav Khanna
Anant Nyshadham

Resources, Conflict, and Economic Development in Africa
w24279 Andrea Mattozzi
Erik Snowberg

The Right Type of Legislator: A Theory of Taxation and Representation
w24268 Benjamin Enke
Moral Values and Voting
w24259 James Feigenbaum
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Vanessa Williamson

From the Bargaining Table to the Ballot Box: Political Effects of Right to Work Laws
w24257 Dan Cao
Iván Werning

Saving and Dissaving with Hyperbolic Discounting
w24209 Jacob Moscona
Nathan Nunn
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Institutions and Political Party Systems: The Euro Case
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Leveling the Playing Field: How Campaign Advertising Can Help Non-Dominant Parties
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The Mortality Cost of Political Connections
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International Organizations and Structural Reforms
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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy
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A Structural Model of Electoral Accountability
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Old and Young Politicians
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Collective Action: Experimental Evidence
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The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
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Bias in Cable News: Persuasion and Polarization
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Revealing Malfeasance: How Local Media Facilitates Electoral Sanctioning of Mayors in Mexico
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Homophily, Group Size, and the Diffusion of Political Information in Social Networks: Evidence from Twitter
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Does Conflict of Interest Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews
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Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors
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Incumbency Advantage in Non-Democracies
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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate
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Turnout Across Democracies
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Get Rid of Unanimity: The Superiority of Majority Rule with Veto Power
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Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use
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The Gradients of Power: Evidence from the Chinese Housing Market
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Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistle-blowing: a Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports
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Corruption in Chinese Privatizations
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Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
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Fiscal Federalism and Legislative Malapportionment: Causal Evidence from Independent but Related Natural Experiments
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Private Politics and Public Regulation
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Endogenous Property Rights
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Estimating Habit Formation in Voting
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Experimentation in Federal Systems
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Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
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Task Routineness and Trade Policy Preferences
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Optimal Primaries
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Autocracy, Democracy and Trade Policy
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Overconfidence in Political Behavior
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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
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From Green Users to Green Voters
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Political Economy in a Changing World
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Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation
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Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States
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Political Credit Cycles: The Case of the Euro Zone
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How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
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Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone
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Third-Party Opportunism and the Nature of Public Contracts
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Elections and the Quality of Public Officials: Evidence from U.S. State Courts
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Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
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Sequential or Simultaneous Elections? A Welfare Analysis
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Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War
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Importing Corruption Culture from Overseas: Evidence from Corporate Tax Evasion in the United States
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
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The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis: Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880
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Conflicts of Interest Distort Public Evaluations: Evidence from the Top 25 Ballots of NCAA Football Coaches
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The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
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Corruption in Developing Countries
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A Political Theory of Populism
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The Balanced U.S. Press
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"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications
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What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?
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Institutional Comparative Statics
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History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms
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The Hired Gun Mechanism
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How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies
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Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services
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Regulation Versus Taxation
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Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes
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