Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/276963 
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Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1329
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
In 1968, young people grew up in an atmosphere of strong dissatisfaction and distrust against the status quo. We show that higher exposure to protests in 1968 leads to higher dissatisfaction toward national governments and raises the probability of voting for populist parties. Consistently with the impressionable years hypothesis, we find these effects valid only for those aged between 18 and 25 during 1968. Our results are robust to a series of placebo tests and to alternative definitions of our treatment and control groups. We find that our results are driven by individuals with a middle or low level of education. We also find suggestive evidence that the mechanisms driving our results can depend on individuals' level of education: within our treated cohort people with an elementary level of education appear more attracted by the populist rhetoric, while people with a middle level of education are more likely to care about traditional values.
Subjects: 
Populism
1968 Protests
Log-term Preferences
Impressionable years
JEL: 
P16
D72
Z10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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