Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo

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Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo

JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)

ID	4522268
Author(s)	Meier, Armando N.; Schmid, Lukas; Stutzer, Alois
Author(s) at UniBasel	Stutzer, Alois Meier, Armando Nicolas
Year	2019
Title	Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo
Journal	European Economic Review
Volume	119
Number	C
Pages / Article-Number	434-451
Abstract	Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative ballot outcomes and individual postvote survey data. We find that rain decreases the share of votes for political change. Our robustness checks suggest that this finding is not driven by changes in the composition of the electorate and changes in information acquisition. In addition, we provide evidence that rain might have altered the outcome of several high-stake votes. We discuss the psychological mechanism and document that rain reduces the willingness to take risks, a pattern that is consistent with the observed reduction in the support for change.
Publisher	Elsevier
ISSN/ISBN	0014-2921 ; 1873-572X
edoc-URL	https://edoc.unibas.ch/73440/
Full Text on edoc	No
Digital Object Identifier DOI	10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.07.014
ISI-Number	WOS:000491620000023
Document type (ISI)	Article

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