IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/now/jnlhpe/115.00000064.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Economic Voting during the Great Depression

Author

Listed:
  • Juan Herreño
  • Matías Morales
  • Mathieu Pedemonte

Abstract

We measure the magnitude of economic voting during the great depression. We use the heterogeneity across counties in the exposure to exchange rate changes driven by the departure from the gold standard of US trading partners in 1931 and the US in 1933. We control for the aggregate effects these events trigger using time-fixed effects. We estimate significant changes in local voting behavior in response to local economic shocks. The response of electoral outcomes in both episodes is similar in magnitude, although only the depreciation of 1933 was a direct consequence of the actions of the US government.

Suggested Citation

  • Juan Herreño & Matías Morales & Mathieu Pedemonte, 2024. "Economic Voting during the Great Depression," Journal of Historical Political Economy, now publishers, vol. 3(4), pages 607-628, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jnlhpe:115.00000064
    DOI: 10.1561/115.00000064
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/115.00000064
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1561/115.00000064?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:now:jnlhpe:115.00000064. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Lucy Wiseman (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nowpublishers.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.