Stephens, Melvin Stephens, Jr.; Charles, Kerwin Kofi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
. Using official county-level voting data and a variety of OLS and TSLS models, we find that increases in wages and employment …' psychological motivations to vote in good or bad times; changes in logistical voting costs; or transitory migration. Using … increases in employment lead to less use of the media and reduced political knowledge, and present associational individual …