Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis thesis consists of three chapters which address different questions about the political economy of development. In the first chapter, Natala Garbiras-Díaz and I study whether crowdsourcing technologies aimed at augmenting civil oversight of elections might increase electoral integrity. We report the results of two large-scale field experiments we designed to assess the effectiveness of online crowdsourcing technologies in increasing the engagement of civil society in electoral monitoring around elections in Colombia. In these experiments, we leveraged Facebook advertisements to encourage citizen reporting of electoral irregularities through official websites, and also varied whether candidates were informed about the campaign in a subset of municipalities. We find that these interventions had effects on two different margins.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctoral
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2020
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Montenegro, Mateo,Ph. D.(Juan Mateo Montenegro Zarama)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Daron Acemoglu and Esther Duflo.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127032
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127032