Daughters and Left-Wing Voting
利用全国代表性纵向数据,研究发现有女儿的人更可能投票给左翼政党,而有儿子的人更倾向右翼政党,并排除了家庭停止规则和反向因果的解释。
What determines human beings' political preferences? Using nationally representative longitudinal data, we show that having daughters makes people more likely to vote for left-wing political parties. Having sons leads people to favor right-wing parties. The paper checks that our result is not an artifact of family stopping rules, discusses the predictions from a simple economic model, and tests for possible reverse causality. © 2010 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.