Cumulative Knowledge in the Social Sciences: The Case of Improving Voters’ Information

• In Event: Theoretical Implications of Empirical Models

Brief Overview

Using a game theoretic model we establish that existing empirical works on the effect of information treatments do not always measure a well-defined theoretical quantity. We show that this makes accumulation of knowledge difficult, if not impossible

Authors

• Federica Izzo, UCSD

• Torun Dewan

• Stephane Wolton, London School of Economics