Perceptions about others play an important role in sha** people's attitudes and behaviors,
as well as social norms more broadly. This review presents a meta-analysis of the recent …

We provide a model of self-selection by candidates in a probabilistic voting environment to
shed light on the forces sha** the quality of politicians from both the supply and demand …

Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

Partisanship seems to affect factual beliefs about politics. For example, Republicans are
more likely than Democrats to say that the deficit rose during the Clinton administration; …

Political campaigns increasingly conduct experiments to learn how to persuade voters. Little
research has considered the implications of this trend for elections or democracy. To probe …

We study the persuasive effects of political advertising. Our empirical strategy exploits FCC
regulations that result in plausibly exogenous variation in the number of impressions across …

Factorial designs are widely used to study multiple treatments in one experiment. While t-
tests using a fully-saturated “long” model provide valid inferences,“short” model t-tests (that …

How do external economic shocks influence domestic politics? We argue that those
materially exposed to the shock will display systematic differences in policy preferences and …

Abstract Information is central to designing effective policy, and policy makers often rely on
competing interests to separate useful from biased information. We show how this logic of …

This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual
electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in François Hollande's …