. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters decreases support for abortion law by 25% for right …

There were large regional differentials in the Brexit vote. Most notably, the percentage voting to leave the EU ranged … strong influence on the probability voting leave in several English regions, including the East, North East, London and South …

There were large regional differentials in the Brexit vote. Most notably, the percentage voting to leave the EU ranged … strong influence on the probability voting leave in several English regions, including the East, North East, London and South …

provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum vote. Instead, we find that fundamental characteristics of the … voting population were key drivers of the Vote Leave share, in particular their education profiles, their historical … referendum result. …

This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting … outcomes. We model a referendum in which a voter chooses between two policies. The voter relies on a forecaster to learn about … referendum and (ii) associated with greater macroeconomic uncertainty. Second, as the influence of the forecast on the voter …

In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these … consequences on policy choices and for democratic legitimacy. Building on a simple cost-benefit model of voting, we then review … (quasi)-experimental work studying the effects of voting procedures and of other election rules. Voting procedures (which …

In this paper we examine three forms of regret in relation to the UK’s hugely significant referendum on EU membership … that was held in June 2016. These are, (i) whether leave voters at the referendum subsequently regretted their choice (in … individuals were more likely to indicate that it is everyone’s duty to vote following the referendum. We find evidence in favour …