Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267966 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
MUNI ECON Working Paper No. 2022-04
Publisher: 
Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Brno
Abstract: 
Homophily is a strong determinant of many types of human relationships. It affects, for example, whom we marry and potentially also whom we vote for. We use data on preferential voting from Czech parliamentary elections in 2006, 2010, 2013, and 2017 matched with 2011 Census data to identify the effect of homophily on voting behavior. We find that a one percent increase in the share of the municipality’s population that has the same occupation or education level as the candidate increases the number of preferential votes that candidate receives by 0.7% or 0.5%, respectively. We also find that candidates who live in the voters’ municipality receive a substantially higher number of preferential votes.
Subjects: 
voting behavior
homophily
preferential voting
Czech parliamentary elections
JEL: 
D72
D91
P16
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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