Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapportBidrag til bog/antologiForskningfagfællebedømt

Standard

Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology. / Morton, Rebecca; Tyran, Jean-Robert Karl; Wengström, Erik Roland.

The Political Economy of Social Choices. Springer, 2017. s. 153-185 (Studies in Political Economy).

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapportBidrag til bog/antologiForskningfagfællebedømt

Harvard

Morton, R, Tyran, J-RK & Wengström, ER 2017, Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology. i The Political Economy of Social Choices. Springer, Studies in Political Economy, s. 153-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40118-8_7

APA

Morton, R., Tyran, J-R. K., & Wengström, E. R. (2017). Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology. I The Political Economy of Social Choices (s. 153-185). Springer. Studies in Political Economy https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40118-8_7

Vancouver

Morton R, Tyran J-RK, Wengström ER. Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology. I The Political Economy of Social Choices. Springer. 2017. s. 153-185. (Studies in Political Economy). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40118-8_7

Author

Morton, Rebecca ; Tyran, Jean-Robert Karl ; Wengström, Erik Roland. / Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology. The Political Economy of Social Choices. Springer, 2017. s. 153-185 (Studies in Political Economy).

Bibtex

@inbook{ac33e9f4425b4d63b23d257643acfa2e,
title = "Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology",
abstract = "What explains the gender gap in ideology, i.e. the observation that women tend to be more leftist than men? We provide new evidence showing that personality traits play a key role. Using a novel high-quality data set, we show that the mediating (i.e. indirect) effects of gender operating through personality traits by far dominate the direct effects of gender. They also dominate other potential differences between the sexes like income or education as explanatory factors. Our findings suggest that women tend to be more leftist than men mainly because they have different personalities, which, in turn, shape their expressed ideology. Taking such mediating effects of personality traits into account explains over three quarters of the observed gender gap in general ideological preferences.",
author = "Rebecca Morton and Tyran, {Jean-Robert Karl} and Wengstr{\"o}m, {Erik Roland}",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-40118-8_7",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-40116-4",
series = "Studies in Political Economy",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "153--185",
booktitle = "The Political Economy of Social Choices",
address = "Switzerland",

}

RIS

TY - CHAP

T1 - Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology

AU - Morton, Rebecca

AU - Tyran, Jean-Robert Karl

AU - Wengström, Erik Roland

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - What explains the gender gap in ideology, i.e. the observation that women tend to be more leftist than men? We provide new evidence showing that personality traits play a key role. Using a novel high-quality data set, we show that the mediating (i.e. indirect) effects of gender operating through personality traits by far dominate the direct effects of gender. They also dominate other potential differences between the sexes like income or education as explanatory factors. Our findings suggest that women tend to be more leftist than men mainly because they have different personalities, which, in turn, shape their expressed ideology. Taking such mediating effects of personality traits into account explains over three quarters of the observed gender gap in general ideological preferences.

AB - What explains the gender gap in ideology, i.e. the observation that women tend to be more leftist than men? We provide new evidence showing that personality traits play a key role. Using a novel high-quality data set, we show that the mediating (i.e. indirect) effects of gender operating through personality traits by far dominate the direct effects of gender. They also dominate other potential differences between the sexes like income or education as explanatory factors. Our findings suggest that women tend to be more leftist than men mainly because they have different personalities, which, in turn, shape their expressed ideology. Taking such mediating effects of personality traits into account explains over three quarters of the observed gender gap in general ideological preferences.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-40118-8_7

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-40118-8_7

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-3-319-40116-4

T3 - Studies in Political Economy

SP - 153

EP - 185

BT - The Political Economy of Social Choices

PB - Springer

ER -

ID: 179169397