Mobilizing Young Voters Though Friend-to-Friend Outreach: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

• In Event: Youth Participation

Brief Overview

To assess the effects of friend-to-friend outreach on voter turnout, we conducted a randomized trial in which high school and college students mobilized half of their personal networks during the lead up to the November 2020 general election.

Authors

• Donald P. Green, Columbia University

• Hayley Cohen, Columbia University