Marco Faravelli

Biographic Data

ID1046206
NAMEMarco Faravelli
GIVEN NAMESMarco
FAMILY NAMEFaravelli
SIGNATUREFARAVELLI M
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Queensland
ORCID0000-0001-9646-9126
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • What drives voter turnout? Experimental insights on collectivism and probability weighting

    Open AccessMarco Faravelli, Benedict Gordon et al.ARTICLETheory and Decision2026

    We explore two behavioral mechanisms that may help explain why voter turnout is often in excess of that predicted by rational choice theory: (1) collectivist voters may derive utility from taking part in a cooperative, collective action with other voters, or (2) voters who overweight small probabilities may overweight the likelihood of influencing the outcome of the election. In experimental elections, we confirm both associations. Voters are mor…

  • Procedural Barriers to Political Candidacy

    Open AccessMarco Faravelli, Umair Khalil et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2025

    A procedural rule in Indian elections requires candidates to pay a nominal deposit, which is forfeited on obtaining fewer than one-sixth of the votes. Forfeiture diminishes female recontesting by 13.3 percentage points (pp) in the following election (relative effect size of 68%). We find no such effects for men. These effects are persistent and discourage female candidates in the long term as well. States with more regressive gender norms exhibit…

  • Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the time of Covid-19

    Open AccessFrancesco Fallucchi, Marco Faravelli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an enormous burden on health systems, and guidelines have been developed to help healthcare practitioners when resource shortage imposes the choice on who to treat. However, little is known on the public perception of these guidelines and the underlying moral principles. Here, we assess on a sample of 1033 American citizens’ moral views and agreement with proposed guidelines. We find substantial heterogeneity in c…

  • Relative Performance Feedback in Education

    Open AccessLoretti Dobrescu, L I Dobrescu et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2021Cited by: 2References: 49

    In a one-year randomised controlled trial involving thousands of university students, we provide real-time private feedback on relative performance in a semester-long online assignment. Within this set-up, our experimental design cleanly identifies the behavioural response to rank incentives (i.e., incentives stemming from an inherent preference for high rank). We find that rank incentives boost performance in the related course assignment, but a…

  • (Don’t) Make My Vote Count

    Open AccessMarco Faravelli, Santiago Sanchez‐page et al.ARTICLEJournal of Theoretical Politics2015Cited by: 4References: 25

    Proponents of proportional electoral rules often argue that majority rule depresses turnout and may lower welfare due to the ‘tyranny of the majority’ problem. The present paper studies the impact of electoral rules on turnout and social welfare. We analyze a model of instrumental voting where citizens have private information over their individual cost of voting and over the alternative they prefer. The electoral rule used to select the winning …

  • A Prize to Give for

    Open AccessLuca Corazzini, Marco Faravelli et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2010Cited by: 5References: 16

    This article investigates fund-raising mechanisms based on a prize as a way to overcome free riding in the private provision of public goods. We focus on an environment characterised by income heterogeneity and incomplete information about income levels. Our analysis compares experimentally the performance of a lottery, an all-pay auction and a benchmark voluntary contribution mechanism. We find that prize-based mechanisms perform better than vol…