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CREATED:20150210T190304
SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Enrico Cantoni - MIT
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:The (Un)Importance of Being 25: a Regression Discontinuity Approach to the 
 Paradox of Voting\nAbstract:\nThis 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 electors 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 two voting age thresholds f
 or Italian national elections (18 for the House of Representatives, 25 for 
 the Senate) to assess whether voters above the Senate 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 discontin
 uity in turnout using a variety of RDD specifications and robustness checks
 .\n
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