Workplace Peer Effects in Turnout

Magnus Carlsson and Henning Finseraas ()
Additional contact information
Henning Finseraas: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

No 11/2024, Working Papers in Economics and Statistics from Linnaeus University, School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics

Abstract: The potential for peer pressure at the workplace is high since social interactions are frequent and we care about our social standing at work. Peer effects in politics at the workplace are important to understand since workplaces are becoming more sorted according to human capital, which implies that workplace peer effects can increase social inequalities in turnout. To quantify peer effects we use population-wide administrative data from Sweden that covers several general elections and allows us to measure the turnout of colleagues. To identify causal peer effects we use the turnout of peers of peers in previous elections as an instrumental variable. We estimate peer effects under different definitions of peer groups and leverage the richness of the data to estimate placebo peer effects. Our estimates suggest that workplace peer effects are politically important and contribute to social inequality in turnout.

Keywords: Voter Turnout; Peer Effects; Social Networks; Workplace Dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2024-10-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-net and nep-ure
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ekonomihogskolan.lnu.se/vxesta/24-11_Turnout_Peers.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:vxesta:2024_011

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers in Economics and Statistics from Linnaeus University, School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics Department of Economics and Statistics, School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, 351 95 Växjö, Sweden,. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Thomas Giebe ().