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CREATED:20150210T190304
SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Enrico Cantoni - MIT
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The (Un)Importance of Being 25: a R
 egression Discontinuity Approach to the Paradox of Voting</strong></p><p st
 yle="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Abstr
 act:</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This work provides 
 a novel quasi-experimental test of a key prediction of rational choice and 
 rule-utilitarian models of turnout behavior, namely, that the more likely e
 lectors are to affect the outcome of an election, the more likely they are 
 to vote. Using individual level turnout data, we exploit the existence of t
 wo voting age thresholds for Italian national elections (18 for the House o
 f Representatives, 25 for the Senate) to assess whether voters above the Se
 nate voting age threshold display a higher turnout rate than subjects below
  it. In contrast to models of turnout which focus on pivotality, we find no
  evidence of any discontinuity in turnout using a variety of RDD specificat
 ions and robustness checks.</p>
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DTEND:20140704T140000Z
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