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Randomizing ... What? A Field Experiment of Child Access Voting Laws

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  • Daniel E. Ho

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We explore randomizing legal information when it may be infeasible to randomize law per se. If citizens are underinformed about a legal entitlement, randomizing information about the entitlement may yield critical insight into its potential effect. We illustrate with a field experiment with the League of Women Voters of Georgia in the 2008 general election. We randomly informed roughly 10,000 of 20,000 recently registered mothers of young children about their statutory right to bring their child into the voting booth. We find the treatment had a moderate (but statistically insignificant) turnout effect, but caused a (statistically significant) shift toward early voting.

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  • Daniel E. Ho, 2015. "Randomizing ... What? A Field Experiment of Child Access Voting Laws," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 171(1), pages 150-170, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:jinste:urn:sici:0932-4569(201503)171:1_150:rwafeo_2.0.tx_2-m
    DOI: 10.1628/093245613X14189721363901
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    1. Cassandra Handan-Nader & Daniel E. Ho & Becky Elias, 2020. "Feasible Policy Evaluation by Design: A Randomized Synthetic Stepped-Wedge Trial of Mandated Disclosure in King County," Evaluation Review, , vol. 44(1), pages 3-50, February.
    2. Christoph Engel & Urs Schweizer, 2015. "Does the Law Deliver? 32nd International Seminar on the New Institutional Economics June 11-14, 2014, Regensburg, Germany," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 171(1), pages 1-5, March.
    3. Joachim Winter, 2015. "Randomizing ... What? A Field Experiment of Child Access Voting Laws," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 171(1), pages 176-180, March.

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    JEL classification:

    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • K00 - Law and Economics - - General - - - General (including Data Sources and Description)

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