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 …

public goods. This paper investigates whether the difference in voting between men and women can be explained by differences … suffrage to poor men, rich women, and poor women, respectively. I find that the enfranchisement of both poor men and rich women …