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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniel J. Hopkins, Marc Meredith, Anjali Chainani, Nathaniel Olin, Tiffany Tse
Summary: The ability to cast a mail ballot can safeguard the franchise, but it may also jeopardize the ability to cast a recorded vote. An experiment in Philadelphia during the COVID-19 pandemic increased the likelihood of mail-in voting, with many additional mail ballots counting only due to a last-minute policy intervention.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Asaf Mazar, Geoff Tomaino, Ziv Carmon, Wendy Wood
Summary: This study found that people tend to underestimate the impact of friction on voter turnout and overestimate the role of beliefs. The survey revealed that participants attributed the difference in turnout mainly to beliefs, while neglecting the importance of friction. However, in reality, the influence of beliefs and friction on voter turnout is nearly equal. This cognitive bias may have implications for policy support and voting planning.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeffrey J. Harden, Alejandra Campos
Summary: In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, many American state governments implemented voter ID laws, sparking a national debate over the balance between election security and access in a democratic society. Republican proponents claim these laws prevent voter fraud, while Democratic opponents denounce the burden they place on disadvantaged groups. Research shows minimal average effects of voter ID laws on election results, with initial advantages for Democrats diminishing over time.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
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Political Science
Dylan S. J. Anderson
Summary: This article quantifies the tipping point for strategic voting by analyzing electoral data from five UK and Canadian elections. The study finds specific thresholds at which non-viable party supporters are more likely to cast strategic ballots, providing insights into voter behavior and factors contributing to strategic voting.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Paula England, Michael Hout, Karyn Vilbig, Kevin Wells
Summary: Women have consistently voted for the Democratic candidate more than men in US presidential elections since 1980. This gender gap can be partially explained by the higher proportion of Black women voters, who overwhelmingly choose Democratic candidates. Differences in racial composition account for 24% of the gender gap in voting Democratic, and this difference is even more impactful among never-married individuals, explaining 43% of the gender gap. The income differences between single men and women do not significantly contribute to the gender gap in voting.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
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Economics
Gaurav Khanna, Priya Mukherjee
Summary: We investigate the electoral effects of India's 2016 demonetization policy, which was supported by a majority of voters despite causing severe cash shortages and economic hardship. Our analysis shows that voters in areas with more severe demonetization had less favorable views of the policy, leading to a decrease in support for the ruling party.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
(2023)
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Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Ozge Kama, Tolga Aksoy, Huseyin Tastan
Summary: This paper investigates the relationship between economic adversity and voter participation in Turkish parliamentary elections. The empirical results indicate that inflation has a positive and significant effect on voter turnout, while economic growth is insignificant in this regard.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2022)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Ehab Zaghloul, Tongtong Li, Jian Ren
Summary: The article introduces electronic voting as a convenient and cost-effective alternative to traditional paper ballot-based voting. It proposes a novel remote e-voting model for large-scale elections, utilizing IoT devices for implementation, ensuring security and privacy, and leveraging blockchain for permanent result recording.
IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL
(2021)
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Political Science
Alex B. Rivard, Mackenzie Lockhart
Summary: This study examines the influence of voters' preferences over government types on their vote choices in the 2019 Canadian federal election. The results show a strong relationship between preferences over government type and vote choice, which is also influenced by the perceived viability of the preferred party. Additionally, the relationship varies within and outside Quebec.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SCIENCE POLITIQUE
(2022)
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Operations Research & Management Science
Egor Ianovski
Summary: The paper discusses the problem of selecting the best committee under various constraints, such as interval and dominance constraints. While the problem is NP-hard, the authors show the existence of a polynomial time solution under certain conditions. The study extends the logic underlying separable and best-k rules to order committees from best to worst.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
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Economics
Mark Hoekstra, Vijetha Koppa
Summary: The study found that enacting a strict voter identification law has minimal impact on voter turnout and election outcomes, as the actual number of votes cast without IDs is very low.
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Urban Studies
Gayle A. Alberda
Summary: While early voting has been extensively studied in national and state elections, little research has been done on its impact on local elections. This study examines 2,449 mayoral elections in 849 Ohio municipalities from 2001 to 2013 and finds that early voting depresses local voter turnout.
JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS
(2023)
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Political Science
Arndt Leininger, Max Schaub
Summary: This study examines the influence of imminent disasters on voting behavior, specifically focusing on the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on electoral choice in Bavaria, Germany. The findings suggest that initial local outbreaks favored the governing party and had detrimental effects on the far right, likely due to strategic alignment among voters in times of crisis.
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
(2023)
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Political Science
Josip Glaurdic, Christophe Lesschaeve
Summary: The level of women's parliamentary representation often increases after armed conflict. However, whether voters in postwar societies actually prefer female electoral candidates remains a question. This study analyzes data from three elections in postwar Croatia and finds that voters' gender bias is influenced by their ideology and exposure to war violence, with right-wing voters and those in heavily affected areas being more biased against female candidates. The interactive relationship between ideology and exposure to war violence further suggest that bias against women is strongest among right-wing voters in war-affected areas and reversed among left-wing voters in war-affected areas. This study emphasizes the importance of understanding the relationship between gender, ideology, and violence in postconflict societies.
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Economics
Ethan Kaplan, Joerg L. Spenkuch, Rebecca Sullivan
Summary: This article introduces a variance-like index of heterogeneity in partisanship and uses it to analyze the geographic sorting and evolution of the American electorate. The research shows a significant increase in spatial cleavages since the mid-twentieth century. However, the differences across communities tend to be smaller compared to the differences within communities, indicating that the American electorate is more diverse within areas than across areas.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Economics
Keyvan Eslami, Hyunju Lee
Summary: This paper studies optimal mitigation and testing strategies during a pandemic in the presence of partial information. The findings indicate that when testing is prohibitively costly, stringent mitigation measures become crucial as a substitute for information acquisition.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2024)
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Economics
Caterina Mendicino
Summary: This paper contrasts the effectiveness of central bank asset purchases and direct lending to non-financial corporations. It finds that Main Street Lending is highly stimulative for recessions characterized by cash flow shortages for non-financial firms, while Wall Street QE is only effective in recessions featuring impairment of the balance sheet of financial intermediaries.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2024)
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Economics
Ugo Albertazzi, Fulvia Fringuellotti, Steven Ongena
Summary: Residential mortgages have fixed or adjustable interest rates depending on household conditions and bank characteristics. Research shows that the type of interest rate for mortgages is related to factors such as inflation volatility, correlation between unemployment and short-term interest rates, financial literacy of households, and the extent of using local mortgages to back bonds and securities.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2024)
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Economics
Jose Gabo Carreno, Burak Uras
Summary: This study develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to examine the macro welfare effects of flexible labor contracts. The findings suggest that an increase in wage rigidity in the fixed sector leads to higher welfare, while a switch to inflation targeting decreases welfare. Additionally, the working-hour flexibility of flexible labor contracts reinforces the desirability of wage stickiness in the fixed sector. The optimal size of the flexible sector differs significantly between economies in a currency union and those with inflation targeting monetary policy regimes.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2024)
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Economics
Anouk L. Schippers, Adriaan R. Soetevent
Summary: In unregulated peer-to-peer exchanges, little free libraries, which involve the free exchange of books via privately owned public bookcases, surprisingly show limited free riding behavior. The high and stable level of reciprocal exchange can be explained by strong social norms and preferences for cooperation among owners and users.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2024)
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Economics
Andy Snell, Heiko Stueber, Jonathan P. Thomas
Summary: This study examines a labor market with risk averse workers, directed search, and asymmetric information. The findings suggest that in economic downturns, incumbents and new hires are treated equally, wages are not sensitive to the severity of the downturn, resulting in an amplified employment effect, and wages are determined by forecasts of labor market conditions. In contrast, during economic upswings, new-hire wages are more responsive to actual conditions, while incumbent wages remain relatively rigid.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2024)
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Economics
Victor Gimenez-Perales
Summary: This paper examines the dynamics of importer-exporter connections and presents three novel predictions. Evidence from customs transaction data in Colombia supports these predictions. Additionally, the paper demonstrates the significance of this mechanism for the heterogeneity of trade adjustment to macroeconomic shocks across sectors.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2024)
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Economics
Jaanika Merikull, Alari Paulus
Summary: This study examines the link between productivity and job reallocation during the COVID-19 crisis, using a dataset from Estonia. The findings show that while there is evidence of job reallocation towards more productive sectors and firms, the within-sector reallocation was surprisingly unresponsive to productivity, contrasting with previous major crises such as the Great Recession. This lack of responsiveness is attributed to the impact of generous job retention schemes.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2024)
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Economics
Antonio Fatas, Sanjay R. Singh
Summary: This paper studies the case of a central bank ignoring hysteresis when identifying shocks, and shows that mistaking a demand shock for a supply shock can have permanent effects on output, leading to self-perpetuating errors.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2024)
