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Rising to the Occasion? Youth Political Knowledge and the Voting Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2017

Olof Rosenqvist
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voting agepolitical knowledgeelectionregression discontinuity

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 781 - 792
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Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Uppsala, Sweden (email: olof.rosenqvist@ifau.uu.se). The author is grateful to Oskar Nordström Skans, Martin Lundin, Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Lena Hensvik, Erik Lindqvist, Ghazala Azmat and audiences at IFAU and SUDSWEC 2015 in Uppsala for helpful comments and suggestions. The data used in this paper contain individual-level information and are considered highly confidential. Therefore the author is not allowed to make the data freely available via Dataverse (the coding files can, however, be found via Rosenqvist (2017) in Harvard Dataverse at: https://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0H226U). However, the data and supporting files will be stored at the author’s workplace. It can typically be arranged so that interested researchers can access this data to perform replications. Interested researchers should either contact the author at olof.rosenqvist@ifau.uu.se or the administrative staff at IFAU via ifau@ifau.uu.se. Online appendices are available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123417000515.

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