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Pauline Mille

Pauline Mille is a PhD Student at the University of Rennes (France), where she received her Master 2 degree in Public Finance discussing her thesis on “Education and Political Budget Cycles.” She is now working on a dissertation project under the supervision of Professors Benoît Le Maux (University of Rennes, France) and Sonia Paty (University of Lyon 2, France). Her current research interests are in the field of public choice, political economy, education and local public economics.
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Higher Educational Attainment Equips Voters To Detect Fake News

Fabio Padovano
Access to the internet and the rise of social media has overloaded voters with information and exposed them to a proliferation of fake news. Using political budget cycles, or the tendency for politicians to increase the budget in run-up to elections to win more votes, as a proxy for misinformation, Fabio Padovano and Pauline Mille show in new research that voters who score higher on the OECD’s  Programme for International Student Assessment and achieve a higher level of education are better able to hold politicians to account.

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