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Electing Happiness: Does Happiness Effect Voting and do Elections Affect Happiness Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Nattavudh Powdthavee
Paul Dolan, Robert Metcalfe
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What causes us to vote and what do we get out of it? We approach these questions using data on voting and subjective well-being (SWB) from a large household panel dataset in the UK. We find some evidence that SWB can affect voting intention but no evidence that the results of three recent elections have any effect on SWB.
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