Rain, emotions and voting for the status quo

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 indi...

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Main Authors: Meier, A.N (Author), Schmid, L. (Author), Stutzer, A. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2019
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