Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008-2018

Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons

NBER Working Paper No. 25522
Issued in February 2019, Revised in May 2021

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For suggestions that have improved this article, we are grateful to Daron Acemoglu, Joshua Angrist, Stephen Ansolabehere, Abhijit Banerjee, Tommaso Denti, Esther Duflo, Margherita Fort, Ludovica Gazzè, German Gieczewski, Donald Green, Tetsuya Kaji, Benjamin Marx, Benjamin Olken, Arianna Ornaghi, Luca Repetto, and Marco Tabellini. We are heavily indebted to Clément de Chaisemartin and Xavier D’Haultfoeuille as well as Liyang Sun for guiding us through the use of their respective difference-in-differences estimators. We thank Catalist for providing the U.S. individual-level panel data and responding to our queries about them, and Robert Freeman for invaluable help setting up the data work. We gratefully acknowledge generous funding from the Eric M. Mindich Research Fund on the Foundations of Human Behavior. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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