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Do the rich vote Conservative because they are rich?

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  • Lind, Jo Thori

    () (Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo)

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Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although this seems to fit the data well, I show that this is not true when we control for unobservable characteristics. Using Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is caused by income. Unobserved characteristics correlated with income are handled by using fixed effects panel data discrete choice models. Although a positive association between income and conservative voting persists when controlling for unobservables, the magnitude of the effect is reduced by a factor of five. To correct for measurement error, I instrument income with average income by profession. The magnitude of the coefficients is increased, but the main conclusions remain.

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Paper provided by Oslo University, Department of Economics in its series Memorandum with number 02/2006.

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Length: 46 pages
Date of creation: 03 Feb 2006
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Handle: RePEc:hhs:osloec:2006_002

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Keywords: Political economy; redistribution; voting; multinomial logit; panel data;

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  1. Lind, Jo Thori, 2004. "Does permanent income determine the vote?," Memorandum 23/2003, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
  2. Jo Thori Lind, 2005. "Why is there so little redistribution?," Nordic Journal of Political Economy, Nordic Journal of Political Economy, vol. 31, pages 111-125.

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