Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy
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- Salvatore Nunnari & Eugenio Proto & Aldo Rustichini, 2024. "Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy," CESifo Working Paper Series 11206, CESifo.
- Nunnari, Salvatore & Proto, Eugenio & Rustichini, Aldo, 2024. "Cognitive Abilities and the Demand for Bad Policy," CEPR Discussion Papers 19217, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
voting; policy reform; political failure; cognition; experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2024-08-12 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2024-08-12 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-NEU-2024-08-12 (Neuroeconomics)
- NEP-POL-2024-08-12 (Positive Political Economics)
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