Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250517 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14856
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that emerged during the Czech presidential run-off election to identify the impact of inaccurate and misleading information on electoral outcomes. A political campaign associated a vote for one of the candidates with a legally and politically unfounded risk relevant to people owning houses confiscated from ethnic Germans after the Second World War. Using municipalitylevel data in a difference-in-differences framework, our analysis suggests that the manipulative campaign affected the electoral outcomes and increased voter turnout in municipalities with a higher share of voters at risk of the unproven threat to housing ownership.
Subjects: 
Sudetenland
voting
manipulative information
2013 Czech presidential election
JEL: 
D72
P16
P14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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