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Title: Women's Suffrage and Children's Education

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2021

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DOI: 10.1257/pol.20180677

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Abstract: While a growing literature shows 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 womens political empowerment during childhood experienced large increases in educational attainment, especially blacks and Southern whites. We also find improvements in earnings, particularly among whites that experienced educational gains. We use newly-digitized data to link these long-term effects to contemporaneous increases post-suffrage in local education spending and, to a lesser extent, improvements in childhood health.

Url: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20180677

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Authors: Kose, Esra; Kuka, Elira; Shenhav, Na'ama

Periodical (Full): American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Issue: 3

Volume: 13

Pages: 374-405

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Gender

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