Race and Gender Affinities in Voting: Experimental Evidence

Jeffrey Penney, Erin Tolley and Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant

No 274696, Queen's Economics Department Working Papers from Queen's University - Department of Economics

Abstract: We analyze the results of a large-scale experiment wherein subjects participate in a hypothetical primary election and must choose between two fictional candidates who vary by sex and race. We find evidence of affnities along these dimensions in voting behaviour. A number of phenomena regarding these affnities and their interactions are detailed and explored. We find that they compete with each other on the basis of race and gender. Neuroeconomic metrics suggest that people who vote for own race candidates tend to rely more on heuristics than those who do not.

Keywords: Financial Economics; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2016-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-exp, nep-gen, nep-pol, nep-soc and nep-ure
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.274696

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