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 …

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 …

The impact of legislative term limits on women's representation has developed through several stages. After term limits … reforms passed but before they took affect, research suggested that women's representation would increase due to the forced … Democrats and Republicans by primarily using the overall level of women's representation as the dependent variable. An emerging …

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 …

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 …