Representative policymakers? A behavioural experiment with French politicians This study leverages an online behavioural experiment to analyse whether politicians' decisions align with citizens' preferences and with citizens' decisions within the same decision environment. We ...

New paper out in Economica with Matthieu Pourieux! Check it out on open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our results may also inform policymakers who are interested in promoting alternative voting rules but, in our experience, often hesitate because they are unsure how well citizens will understand and use them.

We believe this is a fundamental issue, as differences in understanding can lead to inequalities in voter empowerment.

Moreover, under majority judgment, better understanding of its vote aggregation is associated with more strategic voting.

We also observe no difference in voting behavior across the two systems: as predicted, evaluative voting leads to strategic use of extreme grades, while—contrary to theory—majority judgment does not reduce strategic voting.

We find that most participants understand how to use grades for each candidate under both systems. However, understanding of how votes are aggregated under majority judgment is lower and much more uneven. While some participants understand it well, many do not.

In this article, we study how well people understand alternative voting rules—specifically evaluative voting and majority judgment—using a lab experiment. We distinguish 3 levels of understanding: how to fill in a ballot, how votes are aggregated, and how to vote strategically.

I am happy to share our latest publication with Antoinette Baujard, Isabelle Lebon, and Simone Marsilio in Public Choice (link.springer.com/article/10.1...).

A widely held view is that the Gini coefficient is not decomposable by subgroups. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework that ensures well-behaved within and between-group terms under which the Gini is decomposable with a novel and unique formula. buff.ly/XdnzG6F

Do minimum wage hikes reduce poverty?

Prior research by Dube said yes--and markedly so.

But this RESTAT is making me rethink things.

It shows that Dube's result is quite fragile/sensitive.

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

Does Priming Democratic Vulnerability Make Citizens Punish Undemocratic Behavior? - Political Behavior Recent instances of public support for democracy-violating political leaders have sparked an important stream of research suggesting that such leaders may gain support by representing citizens’ politi...

Emphasizing that democracy itself is at risk is quite ineffective in reducing support for undemocratic behavior - experimental evidence from 10 countries now open access in @polbehavior.bsky.social

AND this adds a satisfying *The End* to my dissertation.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A re-analysis of Ciacci's (2024) "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: Evidence from Sweden" Journal of Population Economics reveals major issues. A year ago, reproducers Adema, Folke, and Rickne found coding errors driving the paper's key results. Let's unpack this in a 🧵