Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique
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- Ivar Kolstad & Arne Wiig, 2016.
"How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania,"
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9, CMI (Chr. Michelsen Institute), Bergen, Norway.
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"How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania,"
CMI Working Papers
9, CMI (Chr. Michelsen Institute), Bergen, Norway.
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Keywords
voter education; political economy; cell phones; newspapers; randomized experiment; field experiment; Mozambique; Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
- P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2014-12-29 (Africa)
- NEP-CDM-2014-12-29 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2014-12-29 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-POL-2014-12-29 (Positive Political Economics)
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