Gray, D. orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-4110, Pickard, H. and Munford, L. (2021) Election outcomes and individual subjective well-being in Great Britain. Economica, 88 (351). pp. 809-837. ISSN 0013-0427
Abstract
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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Economica published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of London School of Economics and Political Science. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Election Results; Subjective Well-being; Great Britain; Voting Behaviour |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2020 11:18 |
Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2022 09:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ecca.12362 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:168285 |