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CREATED:20231212T093411
SUMMARY:Katherine Casey - Stanford University
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p><em><strong>The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races</str
 ong></em></p><p>Abstract:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Why are there 
 few debates in low-information elections where they have the greatest poten
 tial to inform vote choices?&nbsp; Consistent with candidates having weak i
 ncentives to reveal their qualifications or make policy commitments, we fin
 d only a quarter of 400 Parliamentary candidates in Sierra Leone privately 
 volunteer to debate. Introducing guaranteed public dissemination platforms 
 allows voters to punish those who abstain and sharply increases participati
 on.&nbsp; Randomly improving the quality of the platform induces frontrunne
 rs to join.&nbsp; We document high voter willingness to pay to access debat
 es and private sector interest in disseminating them, confirming that candi
 date reluctance and not market viability is the main barrier.&nbsp;</p>
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