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Determinants Of Chilean Youth Voter Registration: Evidence For The Biobio Region, Andres A. Acuña
Determinants Of Chilean Youth Voter Registration: Evidence For The Biobio Region, Andres A. Acuña
Andres A. Acuña
Youth voter registration is a worldwide phenomenon that exhibits a marked decline over the last two decades. On this basis, this paper presents evidence regarding those factors that determine the voter registration of Chilean youth, in particular, the inhabitants of Biobio region. In addition, it presents a microeconomic model for the voter registration decision, which enables to derive an empirical expression that can be estimated and tested. This empirical expression is coherent with the model proposed by Silberman and Durden (1975), which considers a relationship between voter registration and several social/economic variables. The model is estimated using a dynamic panel …