%0 Report
        %A Guzi, Martin
%A Mikula, Stepan
        %T Careful What You Say: The Effect of Manipulative Information on the 2013 Czech Presidential Run-off Election
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14856
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14856
        %X 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.
        %K manipulative information
%K voting
%K Sudetenland
%K 2013 Czech presidential election