Daughters and left-wing voting
By: by Andrew J. Oswald, Nattavudh Powdthavee
Contributors: Powdthavee, Nattavudh
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2103; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2103
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Daughters; Liberalism; Voting; Right and left (Political science)
Description: "This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon -- nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also speculates on where research might lead. The paper ends with a conjecture: left-wing individuals are people who come from families into which, over recent past generations, many females have been born"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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