The Effects of Voter ID Notification on Voter Turnout: Results from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Green ◽  
Keesler Welch ◽  
Shammi Quddus
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
Voter Id

scholarly journals A field experiment shows that subtle linguistic cues might not affect voter behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (26) ◽  
pp. 7112-7117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan S. Gerber ◽  
Gregory A. Huber ◽  
Daniel R. Biggers ◽  
David J. Hendry
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Estimate ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Linguistic Cues ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
The Difference

One of the most important recent developments in social psychology is the discovery of minor interventions that have large and enduring effects on behavior. A leading example of this class of results is in the work by Bryan et al. [Bryan CJ, Walton GM, Rogers T, Dweck CS (2011) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108(31):12653–12656], which shows that administering a set of survey items worded so that subjects think of themselves as voters (noun treatment) rather than as voting (verb treatment) substantially increases political participation (voter turnout) among subjects. We revisit these experiments by replicating and extending their research design in a large-scale field experiment. In contrast to the 11 to 14% point greater turnout among those exposed to the noun rather than the verb treatment reported in the work by Bryan et al., we find no statistically significant difference in turnout between the noun and verb treatments (the point estimate of the difference is approximately zero). Furthermore, when we benchmark these treatments against a standard get out the vote message, we estimate that both are less effective at increasing turnout than a much shorter basic mobilization message. In our conclusion, we detail how our study differs from the work by Bryan et al. and discuss how our results might be interpreted.

Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN S. GERBER ◽  
DONALD P. GREEN ◽  
CHRISTOPHER W. LARIMER
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Intrinsic Satisfaction ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
Registered Voters

Voter turnout theories based on rational self-interested behavior generally fail to predict significant turnout unless they account for the utility that citizens receive from performing their civic duty. We distinguish between two aspects of this type of utility, intrinsic satisfaction from behaving in accordance with a norm and extrinsic incentives to comply, and test the effects of priming intrinsic motives and applying varying degrees of extrinsic pressure. A large-scale field experiment involving several hundred thousand registered voters used a series of mailings to gauge these effects. Substantially higher turnout was observed among those who received mailings promising to publicize their turnout to their household or their neighbors. These findings demonstrate the profound importance of social pressure as an inducement to political participation.

Biodata response elaboration: A large-scale field experiment

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Levashina ◽  
Frederick P. Morgeson ◽  
Michael A. Campion
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field

scholarly journals Adverse Selection into Competition: Evidence from a Large-scale Field Experiment in Tanzania

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingvild Almås ◽  
Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge ◽  
Kjetil Bjorvatn ◽  
Vincent Somville ◽  
Bertil Tungodden
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Adverse Selection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field

scholarly journals Recommending teams promotes prosocial lending in online microfinance

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (52) ◽  
pp. 14944-14948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ai ◽  
Roy Chen ◽  
Yan Chen ◽  
Qiaozhu Mei ◽  
Webb Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Behavioral Mechanism ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
The Impact

This paper reports the results of a large-scale field experiment designed to test the hypothesis that group membership can increase participation and prosocial lending for an online crowdlending community, Kiva. The experiment uses variations on a simple email manipulation to encourage Kiva members to join a lending team, testing which types of team recommendation emails are most likely to get members to join teams as well as the subsequent impact on lending. We find that emails do increase the likelihood that a lender joins a team, and that joining a team increases lending in a short window (1 wk) following our intervention. The impact on lending is large relative to median lender lifetime loans. We also find that lenders are more likely to join teams recommended based on location similarity rather than team status. Our results suggest team recommendation can be an effective behavioral mechanism to increase prosocial lending.

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