Daughters and Left Wing Voting

Andrew J. Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee ()

Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of York

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.

Keywords: Voting; gender; daughters; political preferences; attitudes. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 D72 H1 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-07
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