Bertocchi, Graziella - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2008
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are … richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost …. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male median voter when women are disenfranchised. Next we show that, as …