Replication Data for: Voting at 16: Does Lowering the Voting Age Lead to More Political Engagement? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the city of Ghent (Belgium)
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'While youth suffrage is widely debated, the causal effects of being eligible to vote on adolescents’ political attitudes are less well known. To gain insights into this question, we leverage data from a real-life quasi-experiment of voting at 16 in the city of Ghent (Belgium). We compare the attitudes of adolescents that were entitled to vote with their peers that just fell below the age cut-off. We also examine the effects of the enfranchisement at 18 years old. While we find an effect of youth enfranchisement on attention to politics, there is no evidence for an effect of enfranchisement on political engagement overall' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Ghent","Political interest","Regression discontinuity design","Voting age","Voting at 16","Youth enfranchisement","Youth suffrage"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'While youth suffrage is widely debated, the causal effects of being eligible to vote on adolescents’ political attitudes are less well known. To gain insights into this question, we leverage data from a real-life quasi-experiment of voting at 16 in the city of Ghent (Belgium). We compare the attitudes of adolescents that were entitled to vote with their peers that just fell below the age cut-off. We also examine the effects of the enfranchisement at 18 years old. While we find an effect of youth enfranchisement on attention to politics, there is no evidence for an effect of enfranchisement on political engagement overall' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
While youth suffrage is widely debated, the causal effects of being eligible to vote on adolescents’ political attitudes are less well known. To gain insights into this question, we leverage data from a real-life quasi-experiment of voting at 16 in the city of Ghent (Belgium). We compare the attitudes of adolescents that were entitled to vote with their peers that just fell below the age cut-off. We also examine the effects of the enfranchisement at 18 years old. While we find an effect of youth enfranchisement on attention to politics, there is no evidence for an effect of enfranchisement on political engagement overall
Ghent; Political interest; Regression discontinuity design; Voting age; Voting at 16; Youth enfranchisement; Youth suffrage