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125 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17112
Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy
Salvatore Nunnari, Eugenio Proto, Aldo Rustichini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17081
Gender Bias in the Reelection of Politicians (When a Crisis Strikes)
Zohal Hessami, Temurbek Khasanboev
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16813
Which Colleges Increase Voting Rates?
D’Wayne Bell, John B. Holbein, Samuel J. Imlay, Jonathan Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16796
The Populist Dynamic: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Countering Populism
Vincenzo Galasso, Massimo Morelli, Tommaso Nannicini, Piero Stanig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16711
Adversarial Economic Preferences Predict Right-Wing Voting
Thomas Buser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16667
Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes: Exploring the Effects of the Poor People's Campaign
D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Krzysztof Karbownik, Daniel I. Rees, Camila Steffens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16538
From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler
Sascha O. Becker, Hans-Joachim Voth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16416
Minimum Wages and Voting: Assessing the Political Returns to Redistribution outside the Tax System
Emiliano Huet-Vaughn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16291
The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany
Stefan Bauernschuster, Matthias Blum, Erik Hornung, Christoph Koenig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16290
Are the Upwardly-Mobile More Left-Wing?
Andrew E. Clark, Maria Cotofan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16220
Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act
Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini, Cecilia Testa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16120
British Voting Intentions and the Far Reach of 11 September Terrorist Attacks in New York
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15991
Human Capital and Climate Change
Noam Angrist, Kevin Winseck, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Joshua Graff Zivin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15829
Disparate Racial Impacts of Shelby County v. Holder on Voter Turnout
Stephen B. Billings, Noah Braun, Daniel Jones, Ying Shi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15483
Do STEM Students Vote?
D’Wayne Bell, Jing Feng, John B. Holbein, Jonathan Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15356
Immigration and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 Refugee Inflow to Germany
Julia Bredtmann
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 96, 103807
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15277
Television Market Size and Political Accountability in the US House of Representatives
Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15121
Registering Returning Citizens to Vote
Jennifer Doleac, Laurel Eckhouse, Eric Foster-Moore, Allison Harris, Hannah Walker, Ariel White
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15095
Reducing Racial Inequality in Access to the Ballot Reduces Racial Inequality in Children's Later-Life Outcomes
Daniel Jones, Ying Shi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15095
Reducing Racial Inequality in Access to the Ballot Reduces Racial Inequality in Children's Later-Life Outcomes
Daniel Jones, Ying Shi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14991
Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition
Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14934
Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act
Giovanni Facchini, Timothy J. Hatton, Max F. Steinhardt
published in: Journal of Economic History, 2024, 84 (1), 232-270.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14856
Careful What You Say: The Effect of Manipulative Information on the 2013 Czech Presidential Run-off Election
Martin Guzi, Stepan Mikula
published in: Economic Letters, 2021, 209, 110152
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14728
The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country
Pia Schilling, Steven Stillman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14718
Air Pollution Affects Decision-Making: Evidence from the Ballot Box
Luna Bellani, Stefano Ceolotto, Benjamin Elsner, Nico Pestel
published as 'The Political Fallout of Air Pollution' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121(18), e2314428121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14658
Voting, Contagion and the Trade-Off between Public Health and Political Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Italian 2020 Polls
Marco Mello, Giuseppe Moscelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14617
The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 Folk School Reform
Daron Acemoglu, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Kjell G. Salvanes, Matti Sarvimäki
forthcoming in: the Journal of the European Economic Association
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14589
The Brexit Referendum and Three Types of Regret
Stephen Drinkwater, Colin Jennings
published in: Public Choice, 2022, 193, 275-291
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14386
Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition: Evidence from Representative Experiments
Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104968
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14296
Downstream Effects of Voting on Turnout and Political Preferences: Long-Run Evidence from the UK
Jonas Jessen, Daniel Kühnle, Markus Wagner
revised version published as 'Long-Run Effects of Earlier Voting Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement' in: The Journal of Politics, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14164
Immigration and Voting Patterns in the European Union: Evidence from Five Case Studies and Cross-Country Analysis
Ethan Grumstrup, Todd A. Sorensen, Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka
published in: Migration Letters, 2021, 18 (5), 573–589.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14140
Peers' Race in Adolescence and Voting Behavior
Maria Polipciuc, Frank Cörvers, Raymond Montizaan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14084
The Refugee Crisis and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy
Francesco Campo, Sara Giunti, Mariapia Mendola
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 168, 104826
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14034
Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from the United States
Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur, Sean Nossek, Eran Shor
published in: Research and Politics, 2021, 8 (1)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13795
Expressway to Power: Infrastructure Projects and Political Support
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dozie Okoye, Belgi Turan
revised version published as 'Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion' in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (657), 48-94.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13775
Dancing with the Populist: New Parties, Electoral Rules and Italian Municipal Elections
Massimo Bordignon, Tommaso Colussi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13746
Committee Decision-Making under the Threat of Leaks
Sebastian Fehrler, Volker Hahn
published in: Journal of Politics, 2023, 85 (3), 1107–1122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13724
The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-WWII Southern Germany
Luciana C. Fiorini, Michael Jetter, Christopher F. Parmeter, Christopher Parsons
revised version published online as 'Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg' in: British Journal of Political Science, 15 December 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13571
Who Voted for Trump? Populism and Social Capital
Paola Giuliano, Romain Wacziarg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13383
Moral Transgressions by Groups: What Drives Individual Voting Behavior?
Eberhard Feess, Florian Kerzenmacher, Gerd Muehlheusser
published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023,140, 380 - 400
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13270
Institutions, Opportunism and Prosocial Behavior: Some Experimental Evidence
Antonio Cabrales, Irma Clots-Figueras, Roberto Hernán-González, Praveen Kujal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13022
Bowling with Trump: Economic Anxiety, Racial Identification, and Well-Being in the 2016 Presidential Election
Mark Fabian, Robert Breunig, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12457
From Citizen's Rights to Civic Responsibilities
Lucas Ronconi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12389
Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature
Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font, Timothy J. Hatton
published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 161-190
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12354
Voting Power and Survival: The Case of a Ruling Party
Artyom Jelnov, Pavel Jelnov
pablished as "Success, Survival and Probabilistic Voting: The Case of a ruling Party" in: Journal Homo Oeconomicus, 2019, 36(3), 209-226
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12317
Vote Influence in Group Decision-Making: The Changing Role of Justices' Peers on the Supreme Court
Maxwell R. Mindock, Glen R. Waddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12175
The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition
Philipp Lergetporer, Ludger Woessmann
now IZA Discussion Papers 14386 and 14991
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11945
Special Interest Groups versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention
Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11945
Special Interest Groups versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention
Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11595
Voting as a War of Attrition
Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 167, 104-121, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11364
Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?
Tjaša Bjedov, Simon Lapointe, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 51 (4), 681-716
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11324
Upward Income Mobility and Legislator Support for Education Policies
Luna Bellani, Vigile Marie Fabella
revised version published as 'Social mobility and education policy: a district-level analysis of legislative behavior' in Socio-Economic Review, 2024, 22 (2), 533 - 571
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11287
Voting in Hiring Committees: Which "Almost" Rule Is Optimal?
Eyal Baharad, Leif Danziger
published in: Group Decision and Negotiation, 2018, 27, 129-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11261
Voting Patterns and the Gender Wage Gap
Wifag Adnan, Sami H. Miaari
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11177
Papa Does Preach: Daughters and Polarisation of Attitudes toward Abortion
Clémentine Van Effenterre
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 179, 188-201
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11060
What Are You Voting For? Proximity to Refugee Reception Centres and Voting in the 2016 Italian Constitutional Referendum
Massimiliano Bratti, Claudio Deiana, Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella, Elena Claudia Meroni
revised version published as 'Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2020, 120, 103290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11059
Was Brexit Caused by the Unhappy and the Old?
Federica Liberini, Andrew J. Oswald, Eugenio Proto, Michela Redoano
published as 'Was Brexit triggered by the old and unhappy? Or by financial feelings?' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 161, 287-302
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10987
What Determines Preferences for an Electoral System? Evidence from a Binding Referendum
Guillem Riambau, Steven Stillman, Geua Boe-Gibson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10858
The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati, Francesco Sobbrio
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3305 - 3336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10849
Do Refugees Impact Voting Behavior in the Host Country? Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows in Turkey
Onur Altindag, Neeraj Kaushal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10760
Committee Search with Ex-ante Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Keigo Inukai, Keisuke Kawata, Masaru Sasaki
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10604
The Effect of Far Right Parties on the Location Choice of Immigrants: Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors
Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola, Colin P. Green, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 166, 12-26.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10550
Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law
Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer, Cédric Gorinas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10494
Jobs, Crime, and Votes: A Short-run Evaluation of the Refugee Crisis in Germany
Markus Gehrsitz, Martin Ungerer
published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (355), 592 - 626
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10417
Minority Salience and Political Extremism
Tommaso Colussi, Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 237-271
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10350
Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo
Armando N. Meier, Lukas D. Schmid, Alois Stutzer
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 434-451
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10258
Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics
Sebastian Fehrler, Urs Fischbacher, Maik T. Schneider
published as 'Honesty and Self-Selection into Cheap Talk' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 2468-2496
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9991
Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era: Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy
Samuele Poy, Simone Schüller
revised version published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (1), 103861
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9790
Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right: (Unexpected) Results from Austria
Andreas Steinmayr
published as 'Contact versus Exposure: Refugee Presence and Voting for the Far-Right' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (2), 310–327
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9780
Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation
Dhaval M. Dave, Hope Corman, Nancy E. Reichman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9526
Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks
Abel Brodeur
published as 'The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 246-82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9423
Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy
Gilles Saint-Paul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9337
The Political Economy of State and Local Investment in Pre-K Programs
Matthew E. Kahn, Kyle Barron
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9336
An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay
Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos
published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 140, 23-26.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9335
Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes
Helmuth Cremer, Catarina Goulão, Kerstin Roeder
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 258-267.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9161
May There Be Victory: Government Election Performance and the World's Largest Public-Works Program
Laura V Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9027
How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment
Sebastian Fehrler, Niall Hughes
published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018, 10, 181-209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8879
The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms
Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer
published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (2), 357-384
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8706
When Is Voting Optimal?
Ruth Ben-Yashar, Leif Danziger
published in: Economic Theory Bulletin, 2015, 3 (2), 341–356
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8533
Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents
Sebastian Kube, Sebastian Schaube, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Elina Khachatryan
published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 248-268.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8510
The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
John S. Earle, Scott Gehlbach
published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2015, 59(3), 708-723
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8498
Happy Voters
Federica Liberini, Michela Redoano, Eugenio Proto
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 41-57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8409
Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from Swiss Voting Results
Beatrice Brunner, Andreas Kuhn
revised version published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71(1), 28-58
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8228
Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences
Guglielmo Barone, Alessio D'Ignazio, Guido de Blasio, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 136, 1-14
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8017
Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Resul Cesur, Naci Mocan
published as 'Education, religion, and voter preference in a Muslim country' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 1-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7934
Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners
Nattavudh Powdthavee, Andrew J. Oswald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7340
How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Chad Kendall, Tommaso Nannicini, Francesco Trebbi
published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (1), 322-353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7012
Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region
Rūta Ubarevičienė, Donatas Burneika, Maarten van Ham
published as: 'Ethno-political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region. An Analysis of Voting Behaviour' in: Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015, 46 (2), 217 - 242
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6996
Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data
Ingo Geishecker, Thomas Siedler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6870
Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior
Javier E. Baez, Adriana Camacho, Emily Conover, Roman Andres Zarate
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6861
An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model
Yoichi Hizen, Keisuke Kawata, Masaru Sasaki
published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 59-76
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6741
De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
revised version published in: Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, 321-345
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6620
Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Thomas Markussen, Ernesto Reuben, Jean-Robert Tyran
published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (574), F163-F195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6575
Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria
Martin Halla, Alexander F. Wagner, Josef Zweimüller
revised version published as 'Immigration and Voting for the Far Right' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (6), 1341-1385,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5965
Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
Frederico S. Finan, Laura Schechter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5854
Time to Vote?
John Gibson, Bonggeun Kim, Steven Stillman, Geua Boe-Gibson
published in: Public Choice, 2013, 156(3), 517-536
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5561
What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Giovanni Facchini, Max F. Steinhardt
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95, 734-743
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5056
Who Will Be Idol? The Importance of Social Networks for Winning on Reality Shows
Odelia Heizler (Cohen), Ayal Kimhi
published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012, 41 (1), 18-25
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5033
Rational Choice and Voter Turnout: Evidence from Union Representation Elections
Henry S Farber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4643
Voting with Feet: Community Choice in Social Dilemmas
Özgür Gürerk, Bernd Irlenbusch, Bettina Rockenbach
completely revised version published as 'On Cooperation in Open Communities' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120, 220–230
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