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===How could the tests be improved?===
===What are the tests' strengths and weaknesses? ===
The most obvious source of confounds to the empirical test would be other legislation or developments that happened simultaneously with disenfranchisement.
Another issue is related to spillover. Because the strategy involves treatment/control groups that are contiguous, its possible that the control groups are getting some form of spillover treatment. IE, the control groups in this study may actually be bad counterfactuals for the treatment groups -- because their spacial proximity means that they're being partially (if not fully) treated.
These issues discussed explicitly on pg 23, "Threats to Identification."
===Can you think of any alternative empirical tests?===
