Exploiting novel longitudinal data on individuals in Great Britain matched to their parliamentary constituency, we find that supporting the incumbent political party, at both the national and constituency levels, exerts a positive influence on individual subjective wellbeing. This relationship varies across different measures of subjective wellbeing, gender and personal characteristics. We then implement a regression discontinuity in time design to estimate the impact of a quasi-natural experiment, where we exploit the timing of the survey around the 2010 election date in order to identify a causal relationship. We find that Liberal Democrat supporters have approximately one-unit higher level of overall life satisfaction after their party’s electoral success.

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英国的选举结果和个人主观幸福感

利用英国与议会选区匹配的个人的新纵向数据，我们发现在国家和选区层面支持现任政党对个人主观幸福感产生积极影响。这种关系因主观幸福感、性别和个人特征的不同衡量标准而异。然后，我们在时间设计中实施回归不连续性来估计准自然实验的影响，我们利用 2010 年选举日期前后的调查时间来确定因果关系。我们发现，自民党的选举成功后，自民党支持者的整体生活满意度大约高出一个单位。