Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by … jurisdiction's transition to woman suffrage. Our results show that the general scarcity of women in the American West, or a high … sex ratio, was the single most important factor behind the region's lead in the enfranchisement of women in the US. High …