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Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?
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WoS WOS:001252467200001
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85195307328
DOI 10.1016/J.JDEVECO.2024.103315
Año 2024
Tipo artículo de investigación

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Autores Afiliación Chile

Instituciones Chile

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Internacional

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Afiliación Extranjera

Instituciones
Extranjeras


Abstract



This paper explores the electoral effects of providing information on the educational outcomes of municipal schools when the mayor is running for reelection. We designed and implemented an experiment in Chile whereby we sent 128,033 letters to voters in 400 randomly selected polling stations prior to the 2016 municipal elections. The letters included information on past test scores for local public schools (levels and changes), and either average or maximum outcomes for comparable municipalities. Our findings do not reveal a relevant average impact of the letters, but when they contain poor educational outcomes, voter turnout decreases, translating almost one to one in decreases in votes for the incumbent mayor. Voters respond to educational results in levels and to letters that have average results as a benchmark. The results are especially strong when poor educational outcomes come as bad news to voters. We also find spillover effects in the municipal council election. Overall, our findings suggest that voters hold politicians accountable when faced to certain (but not all) types of information on their performance. JEL Codes: D72, H75, I25.

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Economics
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Ord. Autor Género Institución - País
1 Cox, Loreto Hombre Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
2 Eyzaguirre, Sylvia - Centro de Estudios Publicos - Chile
Ctr Estudios Publ - Chile
3 GALLEGO-YANEZ, FRANCISCO ANTONIO Hombre Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Chile
J Pal - Chile
4 García, Maximiliano - Brown University - Estados Unidos
Brown Univ - Estados Unidos

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Financiamiento



Fuente
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico
Centro de Estudios Públicos
SECHI
Chilean Society of Economists

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Agradecimientos



Agradecimiento
We thank Jeremy Magruder (the editor), two anonymous referees, Josefa Aguirre, Harald Beyer, Andrea Campbell, Paulo Cox, Ernesto Dal Bo, Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Frederico Finan, Raymond Fisman, Andr\u00E9s Hernando, Daniel Hidalgo, Crist\u00F3bal Huneeus, Carmen Le Foulon, Francisco Pino, Slaven Razmilic, Laura Schechter, Carolina Velasco, and Leonard Wantchekon, as well as seminar participants at Centro de Estudios P\u00FAblicos, PUC-Chile, the 2019 RIDGE-LACEA Political Economy workshop, and the 2019 Chilean Society of Economists (SECHI) conference for comments and suggestions. We thank Joaqu\u00EDn Galeno and Paula Araya for excellent research assistance. We thank the Chilean Quality of Education Agency for providing data for this project, within the framework of the collaboration agreement between the agency and Centro de Estudios P\u00FAblicos. We thank MANO A MANO Consulting for their help in pretesting the letter, and Mat\u00EDas Cuadra and Arthur Liedtke for helping process the Twitter data. We thank Kelley Friel, Kathryn McLellan, and ChatGPT for editorial help. Finally, we thank FONDECYT (Project 1170956) for financial support. AEA RCT Registration Number: AEARCTR-0001695. All errors are our own.

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