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From voting to writing a will: The simple power of making a plan

  • Written by Todd Rogers, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University

If there’s one thing the Democrat and Republican presidential candidates can agree on these days is that they both want you to vote (for them) this November.

To that end, both political parties tend to have extensive get-out-the-vote operations designed to make sure their supporters actually go to the polls on Election Day.

It turns out that...

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