Replication Data for "Increasing Youth Political Engagement with Efficacy Not Obligation: Evidence from a workshop-based experiment in Zambia"

In many places around the world, young voters participate in politics at low rates. What factors might increase youth political participation? We investigate one possibility: exposure to a religious message that emphasizes the possibility of change through faithful action. We argue that this message, which is common in religious groups that attract large numbers of youth around the world, addresses several barriers to political participation by young voting-age adults. Working in collaboration with the major religious coalitions in Zambia, we randomly assigned young adults (18-35 years old) into civic engagement workshops. Identical informational material, based on pre-existing, non-partisan curricula, was presented in each workshop. Workshops then concluded with one of two randomly assigned, pre-recorded Christian motivational messages based on existing religious programming in Zambia. In some workshops, the concluding message emphasized a Christian obligation to work towards the greater good. In other workshops, the message emphasized the power of faith to make change in the world. Materials in this dataset include the .do file replicating results presenting in the paper and the de-identified dataset produced by our implementing partner, IPA-Zambia, that was analyzed with that .do file. The READ.ME file includes descriptions of the attached files.