Widowhood Effects in Voter Participation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6231889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William R Hobbs (University of California San Diego), William Hobbs (0000-0002-6229-2753, University of California San Diego), Nicholas A Christakis (0000-0001-5547-1086, Harvard University), J H Fowler (0000-0001-7795-1638, University of California San Diego) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12040 |
| OpenAlex | W2140542919 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 46 |
Past research suggests that spouses influence one another to vote, but it relies almost exclusively on correlation in turnout. It is therefore difficult to establish whether spouses mobilize each other or tend to marry similar others. Here, we test the dependency hypothesis by examining voting behavior before and after the death of a spouse. We link nearly six million California voter records to Social Security death records and use both coarsened exact matching and multiple cohort comparison to estimate the effects of spousal loss. The results show that after turnout rates stabilize, widowed individuals vote nine percentage points fewer than they would had their spouse still been living; the results also suggest that this change may persist indefinitely. Variations in this “widowhood effect” on voting support a social‐isolation explanation for the drop in turnout
Demographic economics · Economics · Matching (statistics · Political science · Politics · Social isolation · Social security · Sociology · Spouse · Turnout · Voter turnout · Voting · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |