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Postcard warns about new ID requirements and gives examples of proofs of ID to bring to the polls

The Effects of Voter ID Notification on Voter Turnout in the United States

Donald Green
Morris Levy

Understanding the Preferences and Productivity of Workers in the United States

Stefano DellaVigna
John List
Ulrike Malmendier
Gautam Rao
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Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability in Bangladesh?

Raymond Guiteras
Mushfiq Mobarak
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Reminder Messaging and Peer Support for Debt Reduction in the United States

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

The Role of the VAT for Tax Enforcement

Dina Pomeranz

The Value Added Tax (VAT) system, which generates a paper trail on transactions between firms, facilitated tax enforcement by spreading the impact of enforcement measures up the production chain in a study with over 400,000 firms in Chile.

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Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout in the United States?

Alan Gerber
Donald Green
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Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals among Voters in the United States

David Doherty
Conor M. Dowling
Alan Gerber
Gregory A. Huber
Costas Panagopoulos
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The Impact of Subsidies on the Demand for Electrification in Rural Kenya

Kenneth Lee
Edward Miguel
Catherine Wolfram
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of offering subsidies to connect to the power grid on the demand for rural electrification in Kenya. The study finds that demand falls rapidly as connection price increases, and that supply costs are very high.