Social Incentives and Voter Turnout: Evidence from the Swiss Mail Ballot System

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Is There Backlash to Social Pressure? A Large-scale Field Experiment on Voter Mobilization (2010, background): “Although Gerber et al. (2008) acknowledge that social pressure treatments generate an inherent “tension” between “the compliance-inducing effects of shaming and the compliance-reducing effects of heavy-handedness” (p.”
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility (2010, background): “A similar conclusion emerges from the introduction of mail ballots in some cantons in Switzerland (Funk 2008).”
Conspicuous conservation: The Prius halo and willingness to pay for environmental bona fides (2014, background): “Economists have only within the past decade begun to consider the implications of status seeking when individuals attempt to signal their selflessness, a phenomenon the psychology literature has termed competitive altruism (Hawkes et al. [1993], Roberts [1998], Barclay and Willer [2007], Van Vugt et”
Social Capital and Debt Contracting: Evidence from Bank Loans and Public Bonds (2017, unknown): “Guiso et al. (2004), (2010), Funk (2010), and Knack (2002) argue that because there are no legal or economic incentives to vote or to take census surveys, data on voter turnout and census response rate are more likely to capture the ramiﬁcations of social norms that emphasize cooperative behaviors.”