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electorate projected to double to 15 percent by November from 7.4 percent in 2000, according to Pew Research Center. “A new New York Times/Siena College Poll showed a steady narrowing in Democrats’ margin within this important group for... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

29 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

including the United States and Brazil, "are led by men who have projected strong masculinity attitudes and dismissed the need for precautionary practices, such as wearing masks," the article says. When Pons... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

important implications in an election year marked by widespread protests. Harvard Business School Professor Vincent Pons teamed up with Amory Gethin, a fellow economist at the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

candidate’s party. While the canvasser visits increased voter participation by 1.8 percentage points, the candidate visits had no effect. That effect was the opposite of what Pons and Cantoni anticipated.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

would be better off flipping a coin to determine a probable winner. “We find that even guessing at a 50-50 level is just as good, if not actually better, than using some demographic forecasts,” says Vincent Pons, the Byron Wien Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

21 Apr 2016
Working Paper Summaries

The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa

Keywords: by Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri

16 Feb 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

Keywords: by Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri; Public Administration; Public Relations

19 Sep 2017
Working Paper Summaries

An Invitation to Market Design

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Keywords: by Scott Duke Kominers, Alexander Teytelboym, and Vincent P. Crawford

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

effective way to mobilize nonvoters and persuade those who are undecided.” Getting the ground game right Candidates who accept the limited benefits of TV and shift resources to in-person outreach—whether by the candidate, a proxy, or a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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 explained View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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

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 and engagement issues in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy

Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France

Rankings Matter Even When They Shouldn't: Bandwagon Effects in Two-Round Elections

Strict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2016

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

Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France

Vote Choice Formation and the Minimal Effects of TV Debates: Evidence from 61 Elections in 9 OECD Countries

Can Biometric Tracking Improve Healthcare Provision and Data Quality? Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control in India

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.