Daughters and Left-Wing Voting

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Daughters and Left-Wing Voting

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Andrew J. Oswald () (University of Warwick and IZA Bonn)
Nattavudh Powdthavee () (University of London)

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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.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2103.

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Date of creation: Apr 2006
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- A Oswald & N Powdthavee, 2008. "Daughters and Left Wing Voting," Discussion Papers 08/18, Department of Economics, University of York. [Downloadable!]

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D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government
J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2006-05-13 (All new papers)
NEP-CDM-2006-05-13 (Collective Decision-Making)
NEP-EVO-2006-05-13 (Evolutionary Economics)
NEP-PBE-2006-05-13 (Public Economics)
NEP-POL-2006-05-13 (Positive Political Economics)

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