3 papers
econ.EM2026
Bounding the Effect of Persuasion with Monotonicity Assumptions: Reassessing the Impact of TV Debates
Sung Jae Jun, Sokbae Lee
Televised debates between presidential candidates are often regarded as the exemplar of persuasive communication. Yet, recent evidence from Le Pennec and Pons (2023) indicates that…
econ.EM2025
Learning the Effect of Persuasion via Difference-In-Differences
Sung Jae Jun, Sokbae Lee
We develop a difference-in-differences framework to measure the persuasive impact of informational treatments on behavior. We introduce two causal parameters, the forward and backw…
econ.EM2025
Persuasion Effects in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Sung Jae Jun, Sokbae Lee
We develop a framework for identifying and estimating persuasion effects in regression discontinuity (RD) designs. The RD persuasion rate measures the probability that individuals…