Thomas Fujiwara
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Fujiwara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Fujiwara |
| SIGNATURE | FUJIWARA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University, NBER, and CIFAR |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5739-6769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines
In a randomized experiment in cooperation with two national parties competing in a congressional election in the Philippines, we estimate the causal effect on voting behavior of a town‐hall style campaign in which candidates discuss their campaign platform with small groups of citizens. Keeping the parties' platform fixed, we find that town‐hall meetings have a positive effect on parties' vote shares compared to the status quo, in which voters pl…
‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions signal undesirable traits, like ambition, to the marriage market? While married and unmarried female MBA students perform similarly when their performance is unobserved by classmates (on exams and problem sets), unmarried women have lower participation grades. In a field experiment, single female students reported lower desired salaries and willingness to travel and work long ho…
The Runner-Up Effect
Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election and had similar electoral performance, this is the effect of being labeled the runner-up. Selection into candidacy is unlikely to explain the effect on w…
Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence From Brazil
This paper studies the effects of an electronic voting technology that introduced visual aids in Brazilian elections and facilitated voting for the less educated. Estimates exploiting a regression discontinuity design embedded in its phase-in through time indicate that electronic voting reduced residual (error-ridden and uncounted) votes and generated the de facto enfranchisement of a large fraction (11%) of the electorate. This enhanced politica…
A Regression Discontinuity Test of Strategic Voting and Duverger’s Law
This paper uses exogenous variation in electoral rules to test the predictions of strategic voting models and the causal validity of Duverger’s Law. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design in the assignment of single-ballot and dual-ballot (runoff) plurality systems in Brazilian mayoral races, the results indicate that single-ballot plurality rule causes voters to desert third placed candidates and vote for the top two vote getters. The effe…
A Regression Discontinuity Test of Strategic Voting and Duverger’s Law
This paper uses exogenous variation in electoral rules to test the predictions of strategic voting models and the causal validity of Duverger’s Law. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design in the assignment of single-ballot and dual-ballot (runoff) plurality systems in Brazilian mayoral races, the results indicate that single-ballot plurality rule causes voters to desert third placed candidates and vote for the top two vote getters. The effe…
The Runner-Up Effect
Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election and had similar electoral performance, this is the effect of being labeled the runner-up. Selection into candidacy is unlikely to explain the effect on w…
Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines
In a randomized experiment in cooperation with two national parties competing in a congressional election in the Philippines, we estimate the causal effect on voting behavior of a town‐hall style campaign in which candidates discuss their campaign platform with small groups of citizens. Keeping the parties' platform fixed, we find that town‐hall meetings have a positive effect on parties' vote shares compared to the status quo, in which voters pl…
A Regression Discontinuity Test of Strategic Voting and Duverger’s Law
This paper uses exogenous variation in electoral rules to test the predictions of strategic voting models and the causal validity of Duverger’s Law. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design in the assignment of single-ballot and dual-ballot (runoff) plurality systems in Brazilian mayoral races, the results indicate that single-ballot plurality rule causes voters to desert third placed candidates and vote for the top two vote getters. The effe…
Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence From Brazil
This paper studies the effects of an electronic voting technology that introduced visual aids in Brazilian elections and facilitated voting for the less educated. Estimates exploiting a regression discontinuity design embedded in its phase-in through time indicate that electronic voting reduced residual (error-ridden and uncounted) votes and generated the de facto enfranchisement of a large fraction (11%) of the electorate. This enhanced politica…
The Runner-Up Effect
Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election and had similar electoral performance, this is the effect of being labeled the runner-up. Selection into candidacy is unlikely to explain the effect on w…
‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions signal undesirable traits, like ambition, to the marriage market? While married and unmarried female MBA students perform similarly when their performance is unobserved by classmates (on exams and problem sets), unmarried women have lower participation grades. In a field experiment, single female students reported lower desired salaries and willingness to travel and work long ho…
Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines
In a randomized experiment in cooperation with two national parties competing in a congressional election in the Philippines, we estimate the causal effect on voting behavior of a town‐hall style campaign in which candidates discuss their campaign platform with small groups of citizens. Keeping the parties' platform fixed, we find that town‐hall meetings have a positive effect on parties' vote shares compared to the status quo, in which voters pl…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Media Influence and Politics (3 works) · Voting (3 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (2 works)