The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 92 No. 2 2010
Daughters and Left-Wing Voting
open access
Abstract
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.
- DOI
- 10.1162/rest.2010.11436
- Volume
- 92
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 213-227
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref