Parent Encouragement and Young Adult Voting Behavior: A Potential Outcomes Approach

Autor/in	Siegel-Stechler, Kelly
Titel	Parent Encouragement and Young Adult Voting Behavior: A Potential Outcomes Approach
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 53 (2021) 5, S.764-783 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Siegel-Stechler, Kelly)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X19896691
Schlagwörter	Parent Child Relationship; Parent Influence; Verbal Communication; Young Adults; Voting; Citizen Participation; Political Attitudes; Socialization; Family Characteristics; Socioeconomic Status; Behavior Standards; Religious Factors; Community Characteristics; Predictor Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Abstimmung; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Prädiktor
Abstract	Although previous research consistently finds a strong relationship between parent and child voting, the role of parent encouragement, or verbal instruction, remains less clear. In addition, few studies in this area have attempted to determine the causal mechanisms which drive this association. This study models a potential outcomes approach to causality and investigates the causal relationship between parent encouragement to vote and young adult turnout and informed voting behaviors. Results indicate that, after conditioning on factors that determine selection into treatment, parent encouragement leads to an increase of 30% in likelihood of voting and increases scores on a 6-point informed voting index by 1.04. This demonstrates the large role that parents play in determining youth engagement, while beginning to develop a more complete causal framework for how and why young people come to be active participants in public life. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01