Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Dolan, Paul; Metcalfe, Robert - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008
What causes us to vote and what do we get out of it? We approach these questions using data on voting and subjective well-being (SWB) from a large household panel dataset in the UK. We find some evidence that SWB can affect voting intention but no evidence that the results of three recent...