Yasutora Watanabe:Voter Turnout and Preference Aggregation

时间:2018-05-25浏览:409设置

讲座人:Yasutora Watanabe (Amazon Japan, University of Tokyo)

讲座题目:Voter Turnout and Preference Aggregation

讲座时间:2018年5月31日(周四),10:30-12:00
讲座地点:理科大楼 A1712会议室(中北校区)

讲座主持人:周晓岚

论文提要:We study how voter turnout affects the aggregation of voter preferences in elections. When voting is voluntary, election outcomes disproportionately aggregate the preferences of voters with low voting cost and high preference intensity. We show identification of the correlation structure among preferences, costs, and perceptions of voting efficacy, and explore how the correlation affects preference aggregation. Using county-level data from the 2004 U.S. presidential election, we find that young, low-income, less-educated, and minority voters are underrepresented.

All of these groups tend to prefer Democrats, except for the less-educated. Democrats would have won the majority of the popular and the electoral votes if all eligible voters had turned out.

演讲人简介:渡边安虎,亚马逊公司日本分部的高级经济学家(senior economist)、日本东京大学经济学部访问研究员,美国宾夕法尼亚大学经济学博士。渡边教授是实证产业组织领域的国际知名专家,是《American Economic Review》、《Econometrica》、《Journal of Political Economy》、《Quarterly Journal of Economics》、《Review of Economic Studies》等国际最顶级期刊的匿名评审,同时也是《Japanese Economic Review》副主编。其研究领域包括实证产业组织、量化市场营销、实证微观经济学、政治经济学、法与经济学。曾在《American Economic Review》等国际顶级期刊发表10篇论文,并有若干工作论文在《Management Science》、《Marketing Science》等管理学与市场营销的顶级期刊revise and resubmit。渡边教授在加入亚马逊之前,是香港科技大学商学院的副教授、美国西北大学凯洛格(Kellogg)商学院的战略领域助理教授以及Donald P. Jacobs学者,并曾在国际货币基金组织、高盛公司、国际协力银行等从事过相关工作。渡边教授在日本东京大学获得经济学学士学位。渡边教授指导的学生在美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校(Berkeley)、美国耶鲁大学管理学院担任教职。


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