Electing happiness: does happiness affect voting and do elections affect happiness?

Publication type

Research Paper

Series Number

08/21

Series

University of York Discussion Papers in Economics

Authors

Publication date

October 1, 2008

Abstract:

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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Link

- http://ideas.repec.org/p/yor/yorken/08-30.html

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