Replication data for: Employment, Wages, and Voter Turnout

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Kerwin Kofi Charles; Melvin, Jr. Stephens

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Project Citation:

Charles, Kerwin Kofi, and Stephens, Melvin, Jr. Replication data for: Employment, Wages, and Voter Turnout. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113864V1

Project Description

Summary: Using county-level data across several decades, and various OLS and TSLS models, we find that higher local wages and employment lower turnout in elections for governor, senator, US Congress and state House of Representatives, but have no effect on presidential turnout. We also find that the share of people voting in one election but not in another on the same ballot increases as local labor market conditions improve. We argue that these results are most consistent with information-based models of voting, and use individual level panel data to show that increased employment lowers media usage and political knowledge.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
      D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics

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