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. © 2010 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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2010
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Authors: | Oswald, Andrew J. ; Powdthavee, Nattavudh |
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The Review of Economics and Statistics. - MIT Press. - Vol. 92.2010, 2, p. 213-227
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MIT Press |
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