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Liberini, Federica, Redoano, Michela and Proto, Eugenio (2017) Happy voters. Journal of Public Economics, 146 . pp. 41-57. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.11.013 ISSN 0047-2727.
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Abstract
Empirical models of retrospective voting primarily employ standard monetary and financial indicators to proxy for voters’ utility and to explain voters’ behavior. We show that subjective well-being explains variation in voting intention that goes beyond what is captured by these monetary and financial indicators. For example, individuals who are satisfied with their life are 1.6% more likely to support the incumbent; by contrast, a 10% increase in family income leads to a 0.18% increase in an individual’s support of the incumbent. We use difference-in-differences analysis to identify how voter intention is affected by a negative shock to well-being: the death of a spouse. Individuals who experience the death of a spouse are around 10% less likely than those in the control group to support the incumbent. The results hold even if elected officials’ policies (health care, social welfare) cannot reasonably be blamed for the death.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Voting, Well-being, Bereavement -- Political aspects | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Public Economics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0047-2727 | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 146 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 41-57 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2016.11.013 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 December 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 December 2018 | ||||||||
Funder: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) | ||||||||
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