The limits of behavioral nudges to increase youth turnout: Experimental evidence from two French elections
Résumé
There is a significant gap in turnout between young people and older voters. The failure to instill a voting habit at an early age may have long term consequences in terms of future political participation as well as on other civic behaviors. Using a pre-registered online experiment with 3,790 subjects, we implemented behavioral interventions aiming to stimulate youth turnout in the 2022 French presidential election. We also provide evidence on the effect of one behavioral intervention on youth turnout in a less salient election, the French legislative election that took place two months after the Presidential one. The results from the two experiments show the absence of any differences in turnout between the baseline and the treatment conditions. We investigate several mechanisms that can explain our results.
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Est une version de halshs-05110297 Article Rustam Romaniuc, Andrea Guido, Pierre Baudry, Cécile Bazart, Loïc Berger, et al.. The limits of behavioral nudges to increase youth turnout: Experimental evidence from two French elections. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025, 236, ⟨10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107098⟩. ⟨halshs-05110297⟩