Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda

For implementation we thank the Alliance for Election Campaign Finance Monitoring (ACFIM) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Uganda; we are particularly indebted to Teresa Lezcano Cadwallader, Henry Muguzi, Simon Osborn, and Ivan Tibemanya. We are grateful to Kelsey Barrera, Alex Nawar, and Harrison Pollock for their outstanding research management and assistance in Uganda, to the entire executive staff at IPA Uganda for ensuring the completion of the survey work, and we thank Peter Deffebach and Patryk Perkowski for excellent research assistance in the United States. We also thank Pia Raffler and Melina Platas Izama for sharing data and providing advice on field operations. We benefited from helpful comments and suggestions from Daron Acemoglu, Aislinn Bohren, Erika Deserranno, Michael Kremer, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Edmund Malesky, Ben Olken, Berk Ozler, Nancy Qian, Jorg Spenkuch, David Stromberg, Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, and the EGAP peer response system (in particular, Katherine Casey, Nahomi Ichino and Macartan Humphreys), and participants at APSA 2016, CAF Development Bank of Latin America, Harvard University, the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University, MIT, Northwestern University, Ryerson University, UCL, the University of Houston, the University of Toronto, Uppsala University, Warwick University, and WPSA 2017. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the J-PAL Governance Initiative and the International Growth Centre. 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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