Attitudes towards foreign policy have typically been explained by ideological and demographic factors. We approach this study from a different perspective and ex amine the extent to which foreign policy preferences correspond to genetic variation. Using data from the Minnesota Twin Family Study, we show that a moderate share of individual differences in the degree to which one's foreign policy ...

Despite recent attention to the economic and political consequences of automation technological change for workers, we lack data about concerns policy preferences this structural change. We present hypotheses relationships among risk, subjective technology, preferences. distinguish between compensatory policies versus “protectionist” prevent such Using original survey from Spain that captures m...

What is the causal impact of terrorism on immigration policy preferences? Under what circumstances and due to which psychological micro-mechanisms does this materialize? To answer these questions, we provide evidence from pre-registered well-powered experiments for Germany United Kingdom. We find that anti-immigration responses follow an emotional proximity rationale: leads more restrictive mig...

Key findings in behavioral economics are that people’s behavior (revealed preferences) is often not in line with their intentions (normative preferences), that they are sensitive to the way choices are presented to them, and that their cognitive abilities are limited. This is manifest in particular in areas of intertemporal choice, like personal finance and health-related behavior. Policy maker...

A survey conducted in Mississippi, Texas, Indiana, and Nebraska elicited producers’ preferences for various farm policy changes. This permitted examination of the diversity of preferences that single-state studies have not allowed. Five policy choices, including deficiency payments, loan programs, crop insurance, export programs, and disaster payments were examined. Logit model results predicti...

We analyze the relation between voters’ issue preferences, the candidates’ policy positions and voter behavior, using a simple spatial model of voter preferences. The size of policy differences between the candidates affects how important the voters’ preferred policy positions are for their vote choices. Conversely, how vote choices depend on issue preferences provides information about the dir...