Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to Voting

Alan S. Gerber; Gregory A. Huber; David Doherty; Conor M. Dowling

doi:10.1017/S0007123414000271

Why People Vote: Estimating the Social Returns to Voting

Alan S. Gerber
, Gregory A. Huber
, David Doherty
, Conor M. Dowling

Department of Political Science

Yale University

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Original language	American English
Journal	British Journal Of Political Science
Volume	46
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123414000271
State	Published - Jan 4 2016

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Economics
Labor Economics

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