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Title: Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of womens political empowerment on the human capital of children by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. state and federal suffrage laws. We estimate that exposure to womens suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment among children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, in particular blacks and Southern whites. The results suggest that the redistribution of resources following suffrage benefited children with a high marginal return to investment.

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

Publisher: University of California, Davis

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Gender, Other

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