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  • 13 Jul 2021
  • News

Conflicting, Contradictory Results in Studies of Alleged Racism, Voter Suppression in Election Laws

  • 27 Oct 2020
  • News

Election debates don’t sway voters enough

  • 21 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

elections at all. We asked the study’s coauthor, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Vincent Pons, for some insights on the results. Pons has studied voter participation View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

longer in the new county was likelier to adopt its political persuasions than the child with less exposure. Given that the siblings shared the same mother and father, “we were able to determine that differences in their behavior cannot be... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54967 Does Context Trump Individual Drivers of Voting Behavior? Evidence from U.S. Movers By: Cantoni, Enrico, and Vincent View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

When Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons went to Kenya to conduct research in advance of the 2013 national elections, he discovered surprising lessons about how the ethnic makeup of teams affects... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Apr 2016
  • News

Brief, face-to-face canvassing reduces transgender prejudice, study says

  • 29 Sep 2020
  • News

Do debates matter? Do they change minds about elections? Here’s what the data say

  • 17 Feb 2022
  • News

What Can Actually Convince Vaccine Skeptics to Get Their Shots

  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

organizations like Braver Angels and the Constructive Dialogue Institute. Encourage leaders to model humility and openness to different viewpoints, setting a tone that discourages stereotyping View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55886 Can Biometric Tracking Improve Healthcare Provision and Data Quality? Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control in India By: Bossuroy, Thomas, Clara... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Jun 2017
  • News

How big data helped secure Emmanuel Macron’s astounding victory

  • October 2023
  • Article

Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates

By: Riako Granzier, Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud
Candidates’ placements in polls or past elections can be powerful coordination devices for both parties and voters. Using a regression discontinuity design in French elections, we show that candidates who place first by only a small margin in the first round are more... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Voting; Coordination; Bandwagon Effect; Regression Discontinuity Design; French Elections; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; France
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies

By: Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons and Jérôme Schäfer
In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Policy
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  • 2019
  • Report

Expressive Voting and Its Costs

By: Vincent Pons, Clémence Tricaud and Vestal McIntyre
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  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

explore the mechanisms underlying the relationship between managerial discretion and future performance. Strict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2016 By: Cantoni, Enrico, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2018
  • Article

Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates

By: Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud
In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first round automatically qualify for the second round, while a third candidate qualifies only when selected by more than 12.5 percent of registered citizens. Using a fuzzy RDD... View Details
Keywords: Expressive Voting; Strategic Voting; Regression Discontinuity Design; French Elections; Voting; Political Elections; France
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  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud Abstract—In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jun 2020
  • News

On Track: Health Care, Patient Data, and Provider Performance

  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

Matter Even When They Shouldn't: Bandwagon Effects in Two-Round Elections By: Pons, Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud Abstract—To predict others’ behavior View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman