Pivotal or Popular: The Effects of Social Information and Feeling Pivotal on Civic Actions

This research was approved by the Tufts IRB 1807022 and 1602011. The experiments are registered under AEARCTR-0008768. We thank Sean Devendorf, Rachel Laquidara, Matthew Scheck, and Nicole Sibley for being excellent partners in our field experiments. We thank Sheryl and Warren Rosenfeld for providing financial support for this project. We would also like to thank workshop participants at Wesleyan, Texas A&M and Tufts University, the Social Dilemmas Workshop, the New England Experimental Economics Workshop (NEEEW), the ASSA AEA Conference, and the USC Sol Price School for their helpful comments. We thank Derek Goh, Alison Klemencic, Priyanjana Pramanik, and Ankriti Singh for excellent research assistance. Any views presented in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Analysis Group, Inc. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.