Election Outcomes and Individual Subjective Wellbeing in Great Britain
利用英国纵向数据，发现支持执政党（全国和选区层面）提升个体主观幸福感，并通过2010年大选前后的调查时间差识别出自由民主党支持者满意度约高1单位的因果效应。
Exploiting novel longitudinal data on individuals in Great Britain matched to their parliamentary constituency, we find that supporting the incumbent political party, at both the national and constituency levels, exerts a positive influence on individual subjective wellbeing. This relationship varies across different measures of subjective wellbeing, gender and personal characteristics. We then implement a regression discontinuity in time design to estimate the impact of a quasi‐natural experiment, where we exploit the timing of the survey around the 2010 election date in order to identify a causal relationship. We find that Liberal Democrat supporters have approximately one‐unit higher level of overall life satisfaction after their party’s electoral success.