While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear … whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. suffrage laws, we …

While a growing literature has shown that women prefer investments in child welfare and increased redistribution …, little is known about the long-term effect of empowering women. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. suffrage … laws, we show that children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds who were exposed to women's political empowerment …

The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment … affected women's emancipation as reflected in their life choices like marital decisions and labor market participation. The … staggered introduction of female suffrage in Swiss states allows us to exploit the variation in the age women experienced …

still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the … and may have made woman suffrage more attractive in the eyes of western legislators that sought to attract more women to …

governmentś competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public … support for government spending. The first ballot took place shortly before the extension of suffrage to women in February …

While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human … exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …

still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the … and may have made woman suffrage more attractive in the eyes of western legislators that sought to attract more women to …

This Article explores the history of American women's long struggle for the vote; it does so to illuminate the efficacy … groups, we can better judge what the women of the last two centuries accomplished by focusing on the voting right as their …

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 …

female access to office: binding term limits constitute critical junctures in which dynastic women are 240 percent more … channel through which women enter elected office matters for whether female descriptive representation translates into … substantive female representation. When women access office through a dynastic channel there is no gender mandate. Female …