The Effect of Information on Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By David Dreyer Lassen. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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Television and Voter Turnout (2006, methodology): “For evidence on the link between information and turnout more generally, see the theoretical literature reviewed by Feddersen [2004] and empirical analyses by Gant [1983], Gerber and Green [2000], and Lassen [2005]. 933 TELEVISION AND VOTER TURNOUT”
Employment, Wages, and Voter Turnout (2013, background): “We are especially grateful to the editor and two anonymous referees for their very helpful comments.”
On The So-Called “Huber Sandwich Estimator” and “Robust Standard Errors” (2006, background): “See, for instance, Gartner and Segura (2000), Jacobs and Carmichael (2002), Gould, Lavy, and Passerman (2004), or Lassen (2005).”
The impact of urban form on automobile travel: disentangling causation from correlation (2007, background): “Lassen (2005), who documents similar findings of studies using IV (Dee 2004, Milligan et al.”
Does political knowledge increase turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British general election (2007, neutral): “9 Lassen (2005) refers to a previous unpublished version of this paper and points out that a “key instrument, readership of quality newspapers, could be related to unobserved heterogeneity”.”
Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit (2014, background): “Indeed, empirical studies typically find that more informed individuals are more likely to turnout (Lassen, 2005; Green and Gerber, 2008; Degan and Merlo, 2011; Larcinese, 2009).”
Redistricting and the Personal Vote: When Natural Experiments are Neither Natural nor Experiments (2009, neutral): “…by scholars in a wide variety of fields, including political participation (Brady and McNulty 2004; Huber and Arceneaux 2007; Krasno and Green 2008; Lassen 2005), elections and electoral competitiveness (Carman, Mitchell, and Johns 2008; Gordon and Huber 2007), political psychology (van der Brug…”
The Adverse Effects of Sunshine: A Field Experiment on Legislative Transparency in an Authoritarian Assembly (2012, neutral): “As a result, in nontransparent environments, the accountability between the principals (voters) and their agents (politicians) is much weaker (Alt, Lassen, and Skilling 2002; Besley and Burgess 2002; Lassen 2005).”
Political Interest, Cognitive Ability and Personality: Determinants of Voter Turnout in Britain (2005, background): “Two recent studies by Larcinese (2002) and Dreyer Lassen (2004) question”