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

By Paul Dolan, Robert Metcalfe and Nattavudh Powdthavee

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University of York Discussion Papers in Economics
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08/21
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University of York: Department of Economics and Related Studies
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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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