Eat Widely, Vote Wisely ? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda
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- Christopher Blattman & Horacio Larreguy & Benjamin Marx & Otis Reid, 2019. "Eat Widely, Vote Wisely ? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda," Sciences Po publications 2019-11, Sciences Po.
- Christopher Blattman & Horacio Larreguy & Benjamin Marx & Otis Reid, 2019. "Eat Widely, Vote Wisely ? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda," Sciences Po Economics Discussion Papers 2019-11, Sciences Po Departement of Economics.
- Christopher Blattman & Horacio Larreguy & Benjamin Marx & Otis R. Reid, 2019. "Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda," NBER Working Papers 26293, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Blattman, Chris & Larreguy, Horacio & Marx, Benjamin & Reid, Otis, 2019. "Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda," SocArXiv u34pr, Center for Open Science.
- Blattman, Christopher & Larreguy, Horacio & Reid, Otis, 2020. "Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda," CEPR Discussion Papers 14919, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Christopher Blattman & Horacio Larreguy & Benjamin Marx & Otis R Reid, 2019. "Eat Widely, Vote Wisely ? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda," Working Papers hal-03873791, HAL.
- Christopher Blattman & Horacio Larreguy & Benjamin Marx & Otis Reid, 2019. "Eat Widely, Vote Wisely ? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda," Working Papers hal-03608420, HAL.
- Christopher Blattman & Horacio Larreguy & Benjamin Marx & Otis R Reid, 2019. "Eat Widely, Vote Wisely ? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03873791, HAL.
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Elections; Voting Behavior; Field Experiment; Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
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