What do women want? Female suffrage and the size of government
Author
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Bravo Ortega, Claudio
Author
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Eterovic, Nicolas A.
Author
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Paredes, Valentina
Admission date
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2018-07-23T13:57:59Z
Available date
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2018-07-23T13:57:59Z
Publication date
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2018
Cita de ítem
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Economic Systems, 42 (2018): 132–150
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Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2017.04.001
Identifier
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/150129
Abstract
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The economic literature has attributed part of the increase in government expenditure over the
20th century to female voting. This is puzzling, considering that the political science literature
has documented that women tended to be more conservative than men over the first half of the
20th century. We argue that the current estimates of this relationship are afflicted by endogeneity
bias. Using data for 46 countries and a novel set of instruments related to the diffusion of female
suffrage across the globe, we find that, on average, the introduction of female suffrage did not
increase either social expenditures or total government expenditure.
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Patrocinador
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Fondecyt Grant1130575; Centre
for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies[CONICYT/FONDAP/15130009].