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No Kin In The Game: Moral Hazard and War in the U.S. Congress / Eoin McGuirk, Nathaniel Hilger, Nicholas Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGuirk, Eoin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23904.
- NBER working paper series no. w23904
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- No Kin In The Game
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- We study agency frictions in the United States Congress. We examine the longstanding hypothesis that political elites engage in conflict because they fail to internalize the associated costs. We compare the voting behavior of legislators with draft age sons versus draft age daughters during the conscription-era wars of the 20th century. We estimate that having a draft age son reduces pro-conscription voting by 7-11 percentage points. Support for conscription recovers when a legislator's son ages out of eligibility. We establish that agency problems contribute to political conflict and that politicians are influenced by private incentives orthogonal to political concerns or ideological preferences.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2017.
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