TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Guzi, Martin
AU  - Mikula, Stepan
        TI  - Careful What You Say: The Effect of Manipulative Information on the 2013 Czech Presidential Run-off Election
        PY  - 2021/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14856
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14856
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - manipulative information
KW  - voting
KW  - Sudetenland
KW  - 2013 Czech presidential election
        ER  -