ArticleApplied health economics and health policy2021
Elections have Consequences: Partisan Politics may be Literally Killing Us.
Article in Applied health economics and health policy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- The health costs of losing political representation: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Elections.PloS one · 2025Article
- County-level political group density, partisan polarization, and individual-level mortality among adults in the United States: A lagged multilevel study.SSM - population health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundPresidential campaigns and election outcomes have significant health implications for voters and communities. The theoretical underpinning of this relationship is multifaceted, but a new and growing field of empirical literature strongly suggests communities that voted for the losing presidential candidate may experience decreased physical and mental health under the leadership of the winning candidate.
objectiveOur objective was to estimate the relationship between mortality rates and community support for the losing presidential candidate (partisan loss).
methodsMortality data compiled by the US Centers for Disease Control and election results at the county level were used across a suite of county-year fixed-effects models to estimate the effect of election outcomes on mortality rates for the years 1999-2017.
resultsMortality rates were positively associated with partisan loss. Results suggest mortality rates increase by as much as 3% in extremely partisan counties following presidential election losses.
conclusionsWe suggest two mechanisms-social disintegration and/or partisan theory-by which mortality rates are likely to increase for counties that voted for the losing presidential candidate.
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