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

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Gains in 20th century real wages and reductions in the black-white wage gap have been linked to the midcentury ascent of school quality. With a new data set uniquely appropriate to identifying the impact of female voter enfranchisement on education spending, we attribute up to one-third of the 1920–40 rise in public school expenditures to the Nineteenth Amendment. Yet the continued disenfranchisement of black Southerners meant white school gains far outpaced those for blacks. As a result, women’s suffrage exacerbated racial inequality in education expenditures and substantially delayed relative gains in black human capital observed later in the century.

Url: http://web.utk.edu/~mwanamak/Suffrage.pdf

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Authors: Carruthers, Celeste, K; Wanamaker, Marianne, H

Periodical (Full): The Journal of Human Resources

Issue: 4

Volume: 50

Pages: 837-872

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Education, Gender

Countries: United States