- Abstract:
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Voter education campaigns often aim to increase voter participation and political accountability. Randomized interventions were implemented nationwide during the 2009 Mozambican elections using leaflets, text messaging, and a free newspaper. We study the local peer effects triggered by the campaign. We investigate whether treatment effects are transmitted through social networks and geographical proximity at the village level. For individuals personally targeted by the campaign, we estimate t...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Economic Development and Cultural Change Journal website
- Volume:
- 68
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 567-605
- Publication date:
- 2018-09-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1539-2988
- ISSN:
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0013-0079
- Pubs id:
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pubs:836636
- UUID:
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uuid:f357304a-1bdb-4bab-9d3f-ca43868127f2
- Source identifiers:
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836636
- Local pid:
- pubs:836636
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright holder:
- University of Chicago
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2019 by The University of Chicago.
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Voting and peer effects: Experimental evidence from Mozambique
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