Childhood socialization and political attitudes: Evidence from a natural experiment

Journal of Politics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1023-1037

  Healy, Andrew ^a   Malhotra, Neil ^b  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885637218     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022381613000996     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Alford, John R., Carolyn L. Funk, and John R. Hibbing. 2005. 'Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted?' American Political Science Review 99 (2): 154-67.
2. Alford, John R., Peter K. Hatemi, John R. Hibbing, Nicholas G. Martin, and Lindon J. Eaves. 2011. 'The Politics of Mate Choice.' Journal of Politics 73: 362-79.
3. Angrist, Joshua D., and Jorn-Steffen Pischke. 2009. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
4. Brody, C. J., and L. C. Steelman. 1985. 'Sibling Structure and Parental Sex-Typing of Children's Household Tasks.' Journal of Marriage and Family 47: 265-73.
5. Brody, Leslie R., and Judith A. Hall. 2010. 'Gender, Emotion, and Socialization.' In Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology, eds. J. C. Chrisler and D. R. McCreary. New York: Springer, 429-54.
6. Calvo-Armengol, Antoni, Eleonora Patacchini, and Yves Zenou. 2009. 'Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education.' Review of Economic Studies 76: 1239-67.
7. Campbell, Angus, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller, and Donald Stokes. 1960. The American Voter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
8. Ciabattari, Teresa. 2001. 'Changes in Men's Conservative Gender Ideologies: Cohort and Period Influences.' Gender and Society 15: 574-91.
9. Conley, Dalton, and Emily Rauscher. 2010. 'The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship.' NBER Working Paper 15873.
10. Crouter, Ann C., Beth A. Manke, and Susan M. McHale. 1995. 'The Family Context of Gender Intensification in Early Adolescence.' Child Development 66: 317-29.
11. Della Vigna, Stegano, and Ethan Kaplan. 2007. 'The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting.' Quarterly Journal of Economics 122: 1187-1234.
12. Erikson, Robert S., and Laura Stoker. 2011. 'Caught in the Draft: The Effects of Vietnam Draft Lottery Status on Political Attitudes.' American Political Science Review 105: 221-37.
13. Gager, C. T., T. M. Cooney, and K. T. Call. 1999. 'The Effects of Family Characteristics and Time Use on Teenagers' Household Labor.' Journal of Marriage and Family 61 (4): 982-94.
14. Glynn, Adam, and Maya Sen. 2012. 'Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues?' Harvard University. Unpublished manuscript.
15. Green, Donald P., Bradley Palmquist, and Eric Schickler. 2002. Partisan Hearts and Minds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
16. Hansen, Ben B., and Jake Bowers. 2008. 'Covariate Balance in Simple, Stratified, and Clustered Comparative Studies,' Statistical Science 23 (2): 219-36.
17. Hatemi, Peter K., John R. Alford, John R. Hibbing, Nicholas G. Martin, and Lindon J. Eaves. 2009. 'Is There a 'Party' in Your Genes?' Political Research Quarterly 62: 584-600.
18. Howell, Susan E., and Christine L. Day. 2000. 'Complexities of the Gender Gap.' Journal of Politics 62: 858-74.
19. Huber, Gregory, and Neil Malhotra. 2012. 'Political Sorting in Social Relationships.' Presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA.
20. Jennings, M. Kent, and Richard G. Niemi. 1968. 'The Transmission of Political Values from Parent to Child.' American Political Science Review 62 (1): 169-84.
21. Jennings, M. Kent, and Richard G. Niemi. 1974. The Political Character of Adolescence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
22. Jennings, M. Kent, Laura Stoker, and Jake Bowers. 2009. 'Politics across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined.' Journal of Politics 71 (3): 782-99.
23. Kaufmann, Karen M. 2002. 'Culture Wars, Secular Realignment, and the Gender Gap in Party Identification.' Political Behavior 24: 283-307.
24. Lindsey, Linda L. 1997. Gender Roles: A Sociological Perspective. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
25. Lye, Diane N., and Ingrid Waldron. 1997. 'Attitudes toward Cohabitation, Family, and Gender Roles: Relationships to Values and Political Ideology.' Sociological Perspectives 40 (2): 199-225.
26. Lytton, H., and D. M. Romney. 1991. 'Parents' Differential Socialization of Boys and Girls: A Meta-Analysis.' Psychological Bulletin 109 (2): 267-96.
27. McHale, S. M., W. Bartko, A. C. Todd Crouter, and M. Perry-Jenkins. 1990. 'Children's Housework and Psychosocial Functioning: The Mediating Effects of Parents' Sex-Role Behaviors and Attitudes. Child Development 61: 1413-26.
28. Morgan, S. Philip, Diane N. Lye, and Gretchen A. Condran. 1988. 'Sons, Daughters, and the Risk of Marital Disruption.' American Journal of Sociology 94 (1): 110-29.
29. Oswald, Andrew J., and Nattavudh Powdthavee. 2010. 'Daughters and Left-Wing Voting.' The Review of Economics and Statistics 92 (2): 213-27.
30. Raley, Sara. 2006. 'Children's Time Use: Too Busy or Not Busy Enough?' In Changing Rhythms of American Family Life, eds. S. M. Bianchi, J. P. Robinson, and M. A. Milkie. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 142-56.
31. Rogers, Jospeh Lee, and Debby Doughty. 2001. 'Does Having Boys or Girls Run in the Family?' Chance 14 (4): 8-13.
32. Rosenbaum, Paul R. 2010. Design of Observational Studies. New York: Springer.
33. Ross, Lee, David Greene, and Pamela House. 1977. 'The 'False Consensus Effect': An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes.' Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 13: 279-301.
34. Sanbonmatsu, Kira. 2004. Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women's Place. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
35. Settle, Jaime E., Christopher T. Dawes, and James H. Fowler. 2009. 'The Heritability of Partisan Attachment.' Political Research Quarterly 62: 601-13.
36. Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons, and Neil Malhotra. 2011. 'The Effect of a Child's Sex on Support for Traditional Gender Roles: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.' Social Forces 90: 209-22.
37. Smetana, Judith G., Nicole Campione-Barr, and Aaron Metzger. 2006. 'Adolescent Development in Interpersonal and Societal Contexts.' Annual Review of Psychology 57: 255-84.
38. Stock, James, Jonathan H. Wright, and Motohiro Yogo. 2002. 'A Survey of Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Generalized Method of Moments.' Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 20: 518-29.
39. Stoker, Laura, and M. Kent Jennings. 2005. 'Political Similarity and Influence between Husbands and Wives.' In The Social Logic of Politics, ed. Alan Zuckerman. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 51-74.
40. Tedin, Kent L. 1974. 'The Influence of Parents on the Political Attitudes of Adolescents.' American Political Science Review 68 (4): 1579-92.
41. Tedin, Kent L. 1980. 'Assessing Peer and Parent Influence on Adolescent Political Attitudes.' American Journal of Political Science 24 (1): 136-54.
42. Tedin, Kent L, David W. Brady, and Arnold Vedlitz. 1977. 'Sex Differences in Political Attitudes and Behavior: The Case for Situational Factors.' Journal of Politics 39 (2): 448-56.
43. Urbatsch, Robert. 2011. 'Sibling Ideological Influence: A Natural Experiment.' British Journal of Political Science 41: 693-712.
44. Washington, Ebonya. 2008. 'Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers' Voting on Women's Issues.' American Economic Review 98 (1): 311-32.
45. West, Candace, and Don H. Zimmerman. 1987. 'Doing Gender.' Gender and Society 1 (2): 125-51.
46. Zimmerman, David J. 2003. 'Peer Effects in Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.' Review of Economics and Statistics 85 (1): 9-23.
47. Andrew Healy is an Associate Professor of Economics at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA 90045.