This essay summarizes the results of a large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2000 election campaign by the NAACP National Voter Fund, which sought to mobilize African-American voters. Focusing solely on the direct mail and phone banking components of the NAACP-NVF campaign, this...

We present the results of an experiment using nonpartisan, informational direct mail - of the sort that a public relations-conscious government agency might use - to encourage Ohio voters to contribute money to political candidates. Ohio provides full tax credits of up to $50 to citizens who...

Voter turnout theories based on rational self-interested behavior generally fail to predict significant turnout unless they account for the utility that citizens receive from performing their civic duty. We distinguish between two aspects of this type of utility, intrinsic satisfaction from...

The studies were designed to test whether active naturally-occurring markets could be manipulated experimentally in a way that permitted statistically powerful identification of whether manipulation generally works (rather than anecdotal evidence). The studies also serve as a reminder that true...

Longer-term alliances between corporate buyers and sellers are now commonplace. Extant research predominantly models these interorganizational relationships as dyads. This field study seeks to extend current research in two ways. First, it analyses a supply alliance as nested within a larger...

This database provides data on immigration in terms of fields of study only covering the people with a tertiary education such as health and welfare, art and humanities, engineering, manufacturing and construction, business and law.

Measuring the effect of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition is complicated because the stringency of ballot access regulations cannot be treated as being exogenous to candidates' entry decisions. This paper exploits the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Ohio's...