Election Day Festivals and Voter Turnout: Results from Field Experiments in a Federal Midterm Election

• In Event: The Experiment Requires you to Continue: Field Research in Voter Turnout

Brief Overview

In order to gauge the effects of non-partisan Election Day festivals on voter turnout, large number of pair-randomized experiments were conducted across the country in the weeks leading up to the 2018 federal midterm election.

Authors

• Donald P. Green, Columbia University in the City of New York

• Oliver A McClellan, Columbia University in the City of New York