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dc.contributor.authorBjorvatn, Kjetil
dc.contributor.authorGalle, Simon
dc.contributor.authorBerge, Lars Ivar Oppedal
dc.contributor.authorMiguel, Edward
dc.contributor.authorPosner, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorTungodden, Bertil
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Kelly
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-16T12:34:12Z
dc.date.available2024-10-16T12:34:12Z
dc.date.created2020-12-18T11:21:57Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationElectoral Studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategy. 2021, 69 1-6.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0261-3794
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3158854
dc.description.abstractElections affect the division of resources in society and are occasions for political elites to make appeals rooted in voters' self-interest. Hence, elections may erode altruistic norms and cause people to behave more selfishly. We test this intuition using Dictator Games in a lab-in-the-field experiment involving a sample of more than 1000 individuals in Kenya and Tanzania. We adopt two approaches. First, we experimentally prime participants to think about the upcoming or most recent elections and find that this priming treatment reduces how much money participants are willing to give to other players. Second, we compare results obtained across lab rounds in Kenya taking place right before the country's 2013 national elections and eight months prior, and find that selfishness is greater in the lab round more proximate to the election. Our results suggest that elections may affect social behavior in important—and previously unrecognized—ways.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.titleElections and selfishnessen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.source.pagenumber1-6en_US
dc.source.volume69en_US
dc.source.journalElectoral Studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102267
dc.identifier.cristin1861498
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 262675en_US
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