Join USAID's Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) Bureau on December 17 from 10-11AM ET for a presentation and discussion about youth political engagement with Horacio Larreguy, Professor of Economics and Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City.
Youth electoral participation in the Global South remains consistently low, a trend that both stems from and reinforces political parties' neglect of young citizens' preferences. This talk will present findings from two randomized evaluations designed to increase youth voter turnout and party engagement in Morocco and the Netherlands. These findings are situated within a broader theoretical framework, exploring the conditions under which informational interventions are most effective, and propose potential complementary interventions to increase youth representation.
For more information, see Professor Larreguy's recent articles about low-cost, scalable, online interventions increase youth informed political participation and information's effect on voter-driven accountability.
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Horacio Larreguy is a Professor of Economics and Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City. He is also an Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) affiliated professor, CesIfo research fellow, and an Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) member. His research interests include political economy and development economics using both theory and empirics. He is especially interested in political accountability and vote behavior in Africa and Latin America. In particular, he has worked on clientelism and vote buying, the importance of information for political accountability, whether education fosters political participation, and whenever possible, the relevance of social networks for these and other development issues. Professor Larreguy has published research in top journals, such as AEJ: Applied Economics, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Econometrica, Nature Human Behavior, PLoS ONE, and Science Advances.