Daughters and Left Wing Voting

What determines human beings' political preferences? Using nationally representative longitudinal data, we show that having daughters makes people more likely to vote for left-wing political parties. Having sons leads people to favor right-wing parties. The paper checks that our result is not an artifact of family stopping-rules, discusses the predictions from a simple economic model, and tests for possible reverse causality.

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Year of publication:	2008-07
Authors:	Oswald, A ; Powdthavee, N
Institutions:	Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York
Subject:	Voting \| gender \| daughters \| political preferences \| attitudes

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics ; D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; H1 - Structure and Scope of Government ; J7 - Discrimination
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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