Arbeitspapier
Time to vote?
Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure these costs outside of a few spatially limited case studies. In this paper, we apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to validated national election survey data from New Zealand. We calculate distance and travel time by road from the place of residence to the nearest polling place and combine our time estimate with imputed wages for all sample members. Using this new measure of the opportunity cost of voting to predict turnout at the individual level, we find that small increases in the opportunity costs of time can have large effects in reducing voter turnout.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5854
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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opportunity cost
paradox of voting
travel time
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gibson, John
Kim, Bonggeun
Stillman, Steven
Boe-Gibson, Geua
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-201107283796
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Gibson, John
- Kim, Bonggeun
- Stillman, Steven
- Boe-Gibson, Geua
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2011
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