Replication data for: How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Chad Kendall; Tommaso Nannicini; Francesco Trebbi
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Project Citation:
Kendall, Chad, Nannicini, Tommaso, and Trebbi, Francesco. Replication data for: How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112946V1
Project Description
Summary:
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In a large-scale controlled trial in collaboration with the reelection campaign of an Italian incumbent mayor, we administered (randomized) messages about the candidate's valence or ideology. Informational treatments affected both actual votes in the precincts and individual vote declarations. Campaigning on valence brought more votes to the incumbent, but both messages affected voters' beliefs. Cross-learning occurred, as voters who received information about the incumbent also updated their beliefs on the opponent. With a novel protocol of beliefs elicitation and structural estimation, we assess the weights voters place upon politicians' valence and ideology, and simulate counterfactual campaigns. (JEL D12, D72, D83)
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
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