Week 11 - Finish Line

Hello everyone!

We’ve reached the end of this project, and it’s been an incredible journey. I wanted to use this blog post to publish some final results and share what worked and what didn’t.

First, the final event study plots for AVR and SDR:

While the results cannot be called statistically significant, there is a definite increase in turnout associated with both policies.

Next, the analysis for civic education requirements:

Again, overlapping error bars means the data isn’t showing a statistically significant trend, but in certain years, no test and no course seem to be better.

Finally, the comparison of on-campus polling sites was ultimately difficult to complete due to inaccessible data. With most of the NSLVE reports gone from major data sites because of an ongoing investigation, finding reports for each year and each college in these ideal pairs was very difficult. The ones I could find, the pairs would have yielded no real data since those colleges introduced polling sites only a few years ago.

Overall, educational requirements aren’t enough to spur interest, and theoretical programs aren’t nearly as effective as those that deal with the reality of voting.

So that’s it! I hope you enjoyed learning with me!