Social norms, men's beliefs, and women voting

We provide correct information to male and female respondents by visiting them in their households. Female and male enumerators will speak to respective respondents and convey information to them on a scale of 10 using visual aids. Each person will be spoken to individually and keeping with local norms of interaction.
There are two types of information we provide to the respondents. First, information about social norms which is the average number of people out of 10 who support women voting in the village. Second, is information on alignment between candidate choice of women and men. This information is also conveyed on a scale of 10 people.

2024-01-22

2024-02-08

Female voter turnout

Female voter turnout: This is our main primary outcome. We will record our female respondent to have voted, if the enumerators can verify indelible ink mark on their thumbs after the elections.

Beliefs and household decision making

Beliefs about turnout.: Respondents will be asked to predict the turnout in upcoming elections in an incentivized manner.
Household decision making: In a post treatment survey, we will ask men if they allow women to make a decision about donating money to a political gathering or if the men want to make this decision for them. We will vary whether if the political gathering could be held hosted at the house of political opponents of the male respondents.

We first conduct a baseline survey with randomly selected households. Based on the baseline beliefs of male and female respondents of each households about support for women voting among the men of the community, we divide the sample in two. In the sample, where both men and women are strongly pessimistic, we provide correct information, based on baseline and administrative data, to male and female respondents on (i) whether men in their community supports women voting, and (ii) whether women vote the same candidates as men in the area. The intervention information is provided on a scale of 10. We will cross randomize households into these two types of information treatments. Control households do not receive any information.
In the sample, where either men or women or both are more optimistic than the community average, we randomly select half of the households to receive information on only point (ii) described above. The other half act as control and do not receive any information.
Our enumerators talk to each male and female respondent in the treatment phase of the experiment, irrespective of their treatment status to get their responses to a few questions.

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Computer program written in Stata

We first randomly selected villages/settlements out of a list of villages. Then, we randomize households within villages to receive either treatment or control.

No

Not clustered

Since, we are conducting the experiment in a short time frame we plan to reach between 2500 and 4000 households.

We'll know this number after only the last day of the field work which is just before the elections.

Prenalaysis plan