Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data

Equal access to voting is a core feature of democratic government. Using data from hundreds of thousands of smartphone users, we quantify a racial disparity in voting wait times across a nationwide sample of polling places during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Relative to entirely white neighb...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The review of economics and statistics 2022-11, Vol.104 (6), p.1341-1350
Hauptverfasser:	Chen, M. Keith, Haggag, Kareem, Pope, Devin G., Rohla, Ryne
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Schlagworte:	Access Counties Data Neighborhoods Presidential elections Public opinion surveys Racial inequality Robustness Voting Waiting times
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