A CASH LOTTERY INCREASES VOTER TURNOUT

A cash lottery increases voter turnout

Reform efforts to improve turnout typically focus on reducing the costs of participation or strengthening Goji Supplements appeals to civic duty.While these efforts generate modest effects, this paper explores whether citizens might respond to extrinsic rewards to encourage voting.We conduct a field experiment offering lottery prizes to undergradua

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Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): Japanese encephalitis (JE)

Abstract Japanese encephalitis (JE) has been assessed according to the criteria of the Animal Health Law (AHL), in particular criteria of Article 7 on disease profile and impacts, Article 5 on the eligibility of Japanese encephalitis to be listed, Article 9 for the categorisation of Japanese encephalitis according to disease prevention and control

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Experimental examination of intraspecific density-dependent competition during the breeding period in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus).

A central goal of population ecology is to identify the factors that regulate population growth.Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in eastern North America re-colonize the breeding range over several generations that result in population densities that vary across space and time kids sweatpants during the breeding season.We used laboratory expe

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On Maximum Entropy and Inference

Maximum entropy is a powerful concept that Womens athletic-sweaters entails a sharp separation between relevant and irrelevant variables.It is typically invoked in inference, once an assumption is made on what the relevant variables are, in order to estimate a model from data, that affords predictions on all other (dependent) variables.Conversely,

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