Urbanization Patterns, Information Diffusion and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay

Gabriela Vega, Vivian Roza, Alberto Chong and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Gianmarco León-Ciliotta () and Martín Valdivia

No 1004, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

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 rural areas of Paraguay. We find that public rallies have a small and insignificant effect either on registration or voter turnout in the 2013 presidential elections. Households that received door-to-door canvasing treatment (D2D) are 4.6 percentage points more likely to vote. Experimental variation on the intensity of the treatment at the locality level allows us to estimate spillover effects, which are present in localities that are geographically more concentrated, which may favor social interactions and diffusion of information. Reinforcement effects to the already treated population are twice as large as diffusion effects to the untreated. Our results underscore the importance of taking into account urbanization patterns when designing informational campaigns.

Keywords: electoral politics; voter behavior; urbanization; spillover effects; Paraguay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 D72 O10 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11
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Journal Article: Urbanization Patterns, Information Diffusion, and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay (2019)
Working Paper: URBANIZATION PATTERNS, INFORMATION DIFFUSION AND FEMALE VOTING IN RURAL PARAGUAY (2017)
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