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Trial End Date February 28, 2022 December 31, 2022
Last Published March 30, 2022 05:25 PM August 24, 2023 04:23 PM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date April 10, 2022
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) No clusters.
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 2,507 individuals (no clusters)
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms 842 in Control, 827 in T1, and 838 in T2 groups.
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? Yes
Program Files No
Data Collection Completion Date December 20, 2022
Is data available for public use? No
Intervention End Date September 13, 2021 April 10, 2022
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Papers

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Paper Abstract We study individuals' willingness to engage with others who hold opposite views on polarizing policies. A representative sample of 2,507 US citizens are given the choice to listen to recordings of fellow countrymen and women expressing their views on immigration, abortion laws and gun ownership laws. We find that most Americans (more than two-thirds) are willing to listen to a view opposite to theirs, and a fraction (ten percent) reports changing their views as a result. We provide experimental evidence that emphasizing common grounds with those who think differently helps bridging views and reducing polarization, particularly on divisive policies.
Paper Citation Belot, Michele, and Guglielmo Briscese. "Bridging America's Divide on Abortion, Guns and Immigration: An Experimental Study." arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.13652 (2022).
Paper URL https://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/17444.html
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