Merlo, A;
De Paula Neto, AN;
(2017)
Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are Ideological.
The Review of Economic Studies
, 84
(3)
pp. 1238-1263.
10.1093/restud/rdw046.
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Abstract
This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological. We build on the methods introduced by Degan and Merlo (2009) representing elections as Voronoi tessellations of the ideological space. We exploit the properties of this geometric structure to establish that voter preference distributions and other parameters of interest can be identi ed from aggregate electoral data. We also show that these objects can be consistently estimated using the methodology proposed by Ai and Chen (2003) and we illustrate our analysis by performing an actual estimation using data from the 1999 European Parliament elections.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are Ideological |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/restud/rdw046 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdw046 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in The Review of Economic Studies following peer review. The version of record Merlo, A; De Paula Neto, AN; (2016) Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are Ideological. The Review of Economic Studies is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdw046 |
| Keywords: | Voting, voronoi tessellation, identification, nonparametric |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1328218 |
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