{"id":2762,"date":"2025-06-25T17:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:29:25","slug":"mattias-polborns-paper-values-as-luxury-goods-and-political-behavior-published-in-the-journal-of-the-european-economic-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/mattias-polborns-paper-values-as-luxury-goods-and-political-behavior-published-in-the-journal-of-the-european-economic-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattias Polborn&#8217;s paper &#8220;Values as Luxury Goods and Political Behavior&#8221; published in the Journal of the European Economic Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2198 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/02182138\/mattias-polborn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"237\" \/>Mattias Polborn, Vice Chair and E. Bronson Ingram Chair and Professor of Economics, has published &#8220;Values as Luxury Goods and Political Behavior&#8221; along with Benjamin Enke and Alex Wu of Harvard University in the Journal of the European Economic Association.<\/p>\n<p>The article proposes a theory treating moral values (e.g., support for or opposition to abortion, the Second Amendment, environmentalism, or gay marriage) as luxury goods: Wealthier voters prioritize these values over economic policies compared to poorer voters. This theory has significant implications for understanding political behavior, which they test using survey and observational data.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jeea\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/jeea\/jvaf014\/8098210\">Values as Luxury Goods and Political Behavior | Journal of the European Economic Association | Oxford Academic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattias Polborn, Vice Chair and E. Bronson Ingram Chair and Professor of Economics, has published &#8220;Values as Luxury Goods and Political Behavior&#8221; along with Benjamin Enke and Alex Wu of Harvard University in the Journal of the European Economic Association. The article proposes a theory treating moral values (e.g., support for or opposition to abortion,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":2764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,115,3],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/25172908\/Updated-AS-website-spotlight-template-1-person-12.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}