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Voting suffrage and the political budget cycle : evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902 - 1937
Aidt, Toke; Mooney, Graham - 2014
We study the opportunistic political budget cycle in the London Metropolitan Boroughs between 1902 and 1937 under two different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting evidence that the political budget cycle operates...
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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots
Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013
In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal 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...
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The political economy of the Prussian three-class franchise
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019
Did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policy-making? Combining MP-level political orientation, derived from all roll call votes in the Prussian parliament (1867-1903), with constituency characteristics, we analyze how local vote...
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Women leaving the playpen : the emancipating role of female suffrage
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825334
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Compulsory voting, voter turnout and asymmetrical habit-formation
Gäbler, Stefanie; Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2017
We examine whether compulsory voting influences habit-formation in voting. In Austria, some states temporarily introduced compulsory voting in national elections. We exploit border municipalities across two states that differ in compulsory voting legislation using a difference-in-differences and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761521
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Racial restrictions on voting : evidence from a new pan-Anglophone dataset, 1730-2000
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2024
A substantial literature studies franchise extension, focusing primarily on class-based – rather than race-based – voting restrictions. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel dataset that codes the presence of race-based restrictions on voting in 131 jurisdictions over 1730-2000...
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The influence of child care on maternal health and mother-child interaction
Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2013
concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …
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Early child care and labor supply of lower-SES mothers : a randomized controlled Trial
Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022
applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013475219
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Public child care and mothers' labor supply : evidence from two quasi-experiments
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Schlotter, Martin - 2013
Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...
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Cracking under pressure? : gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic
Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...
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