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Data for Daughters and left-wing voting Nattavudh Powdthavee (7455494) Andrew J. Oswald (7195757) Voting -- Great Britain Voting -- Sex differences Right and left (Political science) -- Great Britain Daughters Sons Migrated from ePrints What determines human beings' political preferences? Using nationally representative longitudinal data, we show that having daughters makes people more likely to vote for left-wing political parties. Having sons leads people to favor right-wing parties. The paper checks that our result is not an artifact of family stopping rules, discusses the predictions from a simple economic model, and tests for possible reverse causality.<br><br>Data record consists of 4 data files, in .do format, and a readme file. The data files (British Household Panel Survey, Waves 1-14) can be downloaded from http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/. For more detailed information, see also the BHPS website: http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/survey/bhps. The four .do files are required to merge, clean and estimate the data. Step 1: Merge household and individual files Step 2: Merge children and generate daughter variables Step 3: Merge all files and clean Step 4: Estimation 2010-08-26T00:00:00Z Dataset Dataset 10.82444/warw.33802426.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_Daughters_and_left-wing_voting/33802426 CC BY 4.0