Daughters and Left-Wing Voting

Andrew J. Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee ()

No 2103, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon – nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also speculates on where research might lead. The paper ends with a conjecture: left-wing individuals are people who come from families into which, over recent past generations, many females have been born.

Keywords: political preferences; voting; attitudes; daughters; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 D72 H1 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006-04
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Published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 213-227

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