@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp14856,
            	author={Guzi, Martin and Mikula, Stepan},
            	title={Careful What You Say: The Effect of Manipulative Information on the 2013 Czech Presidential Run-off Election},
            	year={2021},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={14856},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14856},
	abstract={We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that emerged during the Czech presidential run-off election to identify the impact of inaccurate and misleading information on electoral outcomes. A political campaign associated a vote for one of the candidates with a legally and politically unfounded risk relevant to people owning houses confiscated from ethnic Germans after the Second World War. Using municipalitylevel data in a difference-in-differences framework, our analysis suggests that the manipulative campaign affected the electoral outcomes and increased voter turnout in municipalities with a higher share of voters at risk of the unproven threat to housing ownership.},
	keywords={manipulative information;voting;Sudetenland;2013 Czech presidential election},
            }