Adrian Blattner

Graduate Student Research Funding | 2023 - 2024 Academic Year

The Costs and Benefits of Depolarization Interventions: Evidence from Brazil

The political landscape of Brazil is deeply divided. This has sparked a debate among scholars and policymakers about what types of interventions could be leveraged to reduce polarization. In this project, we use two lab-in-the-field experiments embedded in the 2024 municipal elections to address the following research questions. First, what are the factors limiting partisans’ interest in depolarization interventions aimed at deliberation between partisans? Second, do partisans hold inaccurate beliefs about the costs and benefits of participation, and does correcting those beliefs increase willingness to participate? Third, can the impact of depolarization interventions be scaled by utilizing social media campaigns?

Adrian Blattner, Department of Economics

Adrian Blattner is a PhD candidate in economics at Stanford. Blattner's research incorporates experimental and econometric methods to study political polarization, gender inequality, and inequities in access to secondary education. Blattner is a Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholar and recipient of the ERP Fellowship by the German Ministry of Economic Affairs. Prior to Stanford, Blattner was a lead research analyst at the World Bank and a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Blattner holds an MA in economics from Stanford and a BSc in politics and economics from the University of Potsdam, Germany.

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