Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy

Pedro Dal Bó, Andrew Foster, Louis Putterman

NBER Working Paper No. 13999
Issued in May 2008

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We thank Anna Aizer, Sandeep Baliga, Gary Charness, Ernesto Dal Bó, Guillaume Fréchette, Sophocles Mavroeidis and seminar audiences at Brown University, NYU, UC Berkeley and FSU for very useful comments. We also thank CASSEL (UCLA) and SSEL (Caltech) for the Multistage software, Omar Ahmed for adapting it for this experiment and James Campbell, Bruno García and Jonathan Rodean for experimental and research assistance. This work was supported by grant number 0720753 from the National Science Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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