Apurav Bhatiya on Synchronized Elections and Voter Behavior

Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 1 p.m.

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This episode is the 11th in a miniseries of weekly short episodes featuring young scholars entering the academic job market who discuss their latest research. In this episode, Shruti talks with Apurav Yash Bhatiya about how voters behave in simultaneous versus sequential elections, possible reasons why they behave differently, politicians\\u2019 use of the bully pulpit and much more. They discussed his paper titled \\u201cBehavioral Voters in a Decentralized Democracy\\u201d (coauthored with Vimal Balasubramaniam and Sabyasachi Das). Bhatiya is a Ph.D. student in economics at the University of Warwick. His research areas include political economy, development, and labor economics.

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