Mobilizing Women Voters: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Funded by: IGC
Team Lead: Karrar Hussain
Duration: 2018

Reducing the gender gap in politics, especially on voter turnout, remains a challenge in much of the developing world. A lack of information about public service delivery performance of politicians aligned to women’s preferences is one the reasons behind the low voter turnout rates for women.

Before the 2018 general elections in Pakistan, a randomization of electoral areas was done and a political campaign was run to inform women voters about the public service delivery performance of the incumbent politician. Results suggest that women’s turnout in the election increased substantially as a result of the information campaign as did the vote share of the incumbent.

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