Raluca L Pahontu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raluca L Pahontu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raluca L |
| FAMILY NAME | Pahontu |
| SIGNATURE | PAHONTU R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5464-400X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Democrat Disaster: Hurricane Exposure, Risk Aversion, and Insurance Demand
How does exposure to natural disasters influence voter decision-making? While extreme weather events are exogenous shocks, observed effects often rely on compound treatment effects of exposure not only to threat but also to direct losses. To circumvent this, I use difference-in-differences estimates of hurricane nearly hit areas in the United States to study the effect of proximity to hazard on vote choice. I find that Democrats’ vote share decre…
Resemblance and Discrimination in Elections
Discrimination affects hiring, mating and voting decisions. Whilst discrimination in elections mainly relates to gender or race, we introduce a novel source of discrimination: candidate resemblance. When candidates' partisanship is not known, voters select those that resemble most elected co-partisans. Using a machine learning algorithm for face comparison among white male legislators, we find a stronger resemblance effect for Republicans compare…
Mind the Gap: Why Wealthy Voters Support Brexit
Wealth provides self-insurance against financial risk, reducing risk aversion. We apply this insurance mechanism to electoral behaviour, arguing that a voter who desires a change to the status quo and who is wealthy is more likely to vote for change than a voter who lacks the same self-insurance. We apply this argument to the case of Brexit in the UK, which has been widely characterized as a vote by the ‘economically left-behind’. Our results sho…
Risk and Preferences for Government Healthcare Spending: Evidence from the UK Covid-19 Crisis
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a large shock to the risk of acquiring a disease that represents a meaningful threat to health. We investigate whether individuals subject to larger increases in objective health risk – operationalized by occupation-based measures of proximity to other people – became more supportive of increased government healthcare spending during the crisis. Using panel data that track UK individuals before (May …
Divisive jobs: Three Facets of Risk, Precarity, and Redistribution
A central challenge in understanding public opinion shifts is identifying whose opinions change. Political economists try to uncover this by exploring voters’ economic vulnerability, particularly the relationship between labor-market risk and redistribution preferences. Predominantly, however, such work imputes risk from occupational or sectoral characteristics. Due to within-occupational inequality in exposure to risk, considerable variation rem…
Risk and Preferences for Government Healthcare Spending: Evidence from the UK Covid-19 Crisis
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a large shock to the risk of acquiring a disease that represents a meaningful threat to health. We investigate whether individuals subject to larger increases in objective health risk – operationalized by occupation-based measures of proximity to other people – became more supportive of increased government healthcare spending during the crisis. Using panel data that track UK individuals before (May …
Divisive jobs: Three Facets of Risk, Precarity, and Redistribution
A central challenge in understanding public opinion shifts is identifying whose opinions change. Political economists try to uncover this by exploring voters’ economic vulnerability, particularly the relationship between labor-market risk and redistribution preferences. Predominantly, however, such work imputes risk from occupational or sectoral characteristics. Due to within-occupational inequality in exposure to risk, considerable variation rem…
Mind the Gap: Why Wealthy Voters Support Brexit
Wealth provides self-insurance against financial risk, reducing risk aversion. We apply this insurance mechanism to electoral behaviour, arguing that a voter who desires a change to the status quo and who is wealthy is more likely to vote for change than a voter who lacks the same self-insurance. We apply this argument to the case of Brexit in the UK, which has been widely characterized as a vote by the ‘economically left-behind’. Our results sho…
The Democrat Disaster: Hurricane Exposure, Risk Aversion, and Insurance Demand
How does exposure to natural disasters influence voter decision-making? While extreme weather events are exogenous shocks, observed effects often rely on compound treatment effects of exposure not only to threat but also to direct losses. To circumvent this, I use difference-in-differences estimates of hurricane nearly hit areas in the United States to study the effect of proximity to hazard on vote choice. I find that Democrats’ vote share decre…
Divisive jobs: Three Facets of Risk, Precarity, and Redistribution
A central challenge in understanding public opinion shifts is identifying whose opinions change. Political economists try to uncover this by exploring voters’ economic vulnerability, particularly the relationship between labor-market risk and redistribution preferences. Predominantly, however, such work imputes risk from occupational or sectoral characteristics. Due to within-occupational inequality in exposure to risk, considerable variation rem…
Risk and Preferences for Government Healthcare Spending: Evidence from the UK Covid-19 Crisis
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a large shock to the risk of acquiring a disease that represents a meaningful threat to health. We investigate whether individuals subject to larger increases in objective health risk – operationalized by occupation-based measures of proximity to other people – became more supportive of increased government healthcare spending during the crisis. Using panel data that track UK individuals before (May …
Resemblance and Discrimination in Elections
Discrimination affects hiring, mating and voting decisions. Whilst discrimination in elections mainly relates to gender or race, we introduce a novel source of discrimination: candidate resemblance. When candidates' partisanship is not known, voters select those that resemble most elected co-partisans. Using a machine learning algorithm for face comparison among white male legislators, we find a stronger resemblance effect for Republicans compare…
Mind the Gap: Why Wealthy Voters Support Brexit
Wealth provides self-insurance against financial risk, reducing risk aversion. We apply this insurance mechanism to electoral behaviour, arguing that a voter who desires a change to the status quo and who is wealthy is more likely to vote for change than a voter who lacks the same self-insurance. We apply this argument to the case of Brexit in the UK, which has been widely characterized as a vote by the ‘economically left-behind’. Our results sho…
The Democrat Disaster: Hurricane Exposure, Risk Aversion, and Insurance Demand
How does exposure to natural disasters influence voter decision-making? While extreme weather events are exogenous shocks, observed effects often rely on compound treatment effects of exposure not only to threat but also to direct losses. To circumvent this, I use difference-in-differences estimates of hurricane nearly hit areas in the United States to study the effect of proximity to hazard on vote choice. I find that Democrats’ vote share decre…
Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Redistribution (election (2 works)