@article {183751,
	title = {Voting to Tell Others},
	journal = {Review of Economic Studies},
	year = {Forthcoming},
	abstract = {Why do people vote? We design a field experiment to estimate a model of\&nbsp;voting {\textquoteleft}because others will ask{\textquoteright}. The expectation of being asked motivates\&nbsp;turnout if individuals derive pride from telling others that they voted, or\&nbsp;feel shame from admitting that they did not vote, provided that lying is\&nbsp;costly. In a door-to-door survey about election turnout, we experimentally\&nbsp;vary (i) the informational content and use of a flyer pre-announcing the\&nbsp;survey, (ii) the duration and payment for the survey, and (iii) the\&nbsp;incentives to lie about past voting. The experimental results indicate\&nbsp;significant social image concerns. For the 2010 Congressional election, we\&nbsp;estimate a value of voting {\textquoteleft}because others will ask{\textquoteright} of $5-$15, one of the\&nbsp;first estimates of the value of voting in the literature.},
	url = {https://sites.google.com/site/http://eml.berkeley.edu/~sdellavi/wp/turnout16-05-23.pdf},
	author = {Gautam Rao and Stefano DellaVigna and John List and Ulrike Malmendier}
}
