Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208142 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-938
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
We use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaigns to boost female electoral participation in Paraguay. We find that public campaigns had no effect either on the probability of registration, or on voter turnout in the 2013 presidential election. However, households that received door-to-door (D2D) treatment were four percentage points more likely to vote. Experimental variation on the intensity of the treatment at the village level allows us to estimate spillover effects, which are present in localities that are geographically more concentrated, and thus may favor social interactions. The effect of reinforcement of the message to the already treated population is twice as large as the diffusion to the untreated. Our results underscore the importance of taking into account urbanization patterns when designing informational campaigns.
Subjects: 
Voter Behavior
Electoral Politics
Urbanization
Spillover Effects
Paraguay
JEL: 
O10
D72
O53
D71
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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