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Political Dynasties, Term Limits and Female Political Empowerment : Evidence from the Philippines

Labonne, Julien; Parsa, Sahar; Querubin, Pablo - 2022

women running and winning in mayoral elections. However, we show that this increase is entirely driven by female relatives …

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Effects of Photo Id Laws on Registration and Turnout : Evidence from Rhode Island

Esposito, Francesco Maria - 2019

We study the effect of photo ID laws on voting using a difference-in-differences estimation approach around Rhode Island's implementation of a photo ID law. We employ anonymized administrative data to measure the law's impact by comparing voting behavior among those with drivers' licenses versus...

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Women's Suffrage and Children's Education

Kose, Esra - 2018

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 …

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A Century of the American Woman Voter : Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women's Enfranchisement

Cascio, Elizabeth; Shenhav, Na'ama - 2021

This year marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which provided American women a constitutional guarantee to … the franchise. We assemble data from a variety of sources to document and explore trends in women’s political … participation, issue preferences, and partisanship since that time. We show that in the early years following enfranchisement, women …

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Municipal Housekeeping : The Impact of Women's Suffrage on Public Education

Carruthers, Celeste - 2015

result, women's suffrage exacerbated racial inequality in education expenditures and substantially delayed relative gains in …

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Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

Naidu, Suresh - 2012

This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....

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Sequential or Simultaneous Elections? A Welfare Analysis

Hummel, Patrick - 2012

This paper addresses a key question on the design of electoral systems. Should all voters vote on the same day or should elections be staggered, with late voters observing early returns before making their decisions? Using a model of voting and social learning, we illustrate that sequential...

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A Poll Tax by Any Other Name : the Political Economy of Disenfranchisement

Jones, Daniel - 2013

In this paper, we examine the political economy of voting rights in the American South. We begin by measuring the impact of both formal laws and informal modes of voter suppression on African-American political participation. In contrast to prior research, we find evidence that both formal and...

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The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy

Mukand, Sharun - 2015

We distinguish between three sets of rights – property rights, political rights, and civil rights – and provide a taxonomy of political regimes. The distinctive nature of liberal democracy is that it protects civil rights (equality before the law for minorities) in addition to the other two....

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Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds

Finan, Frederico - 2016

It is widely believed that politicians allocate public resources in ways to maximize political gains. But what is less clear is whether this comes at a cost to welfare; and if so, whether alternative electoral rules can help reduce these costs. In this paper, we address both of these questions by...

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