Who's Watching? Observer Effects in Public Opinion Research

• In Event: Women's Political Participation in India and Pakistan

Brief Overview

We examine the impact of bystanders on female survey respondents. We use n-n matching and suggest that the results are not driven by respondent characteristics, but the quasi-random presence of family members at the time of the interview.

Authors

• Erum Aly Haider, The College of Wooster

• Irfan Nooruddin, Georgetown University