AEA RCT Registry

Field	Before	After
Study Withdrawn		No
Intervention Completion Date		December 29, 2018
Data Collection Complete		Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization)		302 villages, of which 154 are government villages and 148 opposition villages
Was attrition correlated with treatment status?		No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations		11,843 individuals
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms		52 government control villages, 51 government villages with policy treatment, and 51 government villages with legitimacy treatment. 48 opposition control villages, 50 opposition villages with policy treatment, and 50 opposition villages with legitimacy treatment.
Public Data URL		https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10059860
Is there a restricted access data set available on request?		No
Program Files		Yes
Program Files URL		https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10059860
Data Collection Completion Date		January 07, 2019
Is data available for public use?		Yes

Field	Before	After
Paper Abstract		To study the effects of non-partisan information and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaigns on the partisan composition of the voting population in competitive authoritarian elections, we conducted a large-scale field experiment prior to the 2018 Bangladeshi general election. Our two treatments highlight that high turnout increases the winning party’s legitimacy and that election outcomes matter for policy outcomes. Both treatments increase turnout (measured by ink marks) in government strongholds but decrease turnout in opposition strongholds. We explain the withdrawal of treated opposition supporters and conclude that non-partisan information and GOTV campaigns can further tilt the uneven playing field in competitive authoritarian elections
Paper Citation		Ahmed F., Hodler R., Islam A., 2024. Partisan effects of information campaigns in competitive authoritarian elections: Evidence from Bangladesh. Economic Journal, forthcoming
Paper URL		https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead115

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