Compulsory Vote and Income Inequality: A Counterfactual TSCS Approach

• In Event: The Rules and Voting Behavior

Brief Overview

This article examines how compulsory voting impacts economic inequality. Using causal identification strategies for panel data, it finds that shifting from mandatory to voluntary voting increases inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient.

Author

• Benjamín Muñoz Muñoz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology