Economics

How the Choice of Candidates Changes Under Different Electoral Systems

There is a relation between the competitiveness of districts and the quality of candidates, explains a paper by Nannicini and Galasso

How Voter Turnout Varies, and Why

To understand it better requires studying the relationship between the distribution of votes and the overall distributuion of power, as Massimo Morelli, Salvatore Nunnari and Helios Herrera explain in a paper

Experts and Loyalists Are the Candidates That Get onto the Electoral Lists

A paper by Vincenzo Galasso and Tommaso Nannicini explains how political candidates are selected

What Biases Our Choice of a High School Track

Middle school students progressively concentrate their information collection in a few, preferred alternatives, and the pattern of information acquisition depends strongly on their socioeconomic status, according to research by Giustinelli and Pavoni

Fifteen New Professors (Plus One) at Bocconi in September

The sixteenth is a Professor of Practice at SDA Bocconi School of Management. Six other new hires took office in the first part of this year. In total there are seven Full Professors and ten non Italian

Sara Lowes, a Development Economist Focused on the Long Run

During her PhD at Harvard the new Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics adopted a historical perspective