How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

Lott, John R.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.160530

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“…Lott and Kenny (1999) report that in the United States it took up to 30 years until turnout levels recovered from a pronounced decline in political participation due to the introduction of a poll tax.…”

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Compulsory Voting, Habit Formation, and Political Participation

Bechtel

Hangartner

Schmid

2018

The Review of Economics and Statistics

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Compulsory Voting, Habit Formation, and Political Participation

Bechtel

Hangartner

Schmid

2018

The Review of Economics and Statistics

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“…The picture is supported by the estimated effects of being female on the other three policy positions: female students are also less in favor of the Christian-conservative ideology and more in favor of the green and social-democratic ideologies. The fact that women usually espouse more leftist policies than men is well known and has been explained by the greater economic vulnerability of women (see, for example Lott and Kenny, 1999).…”

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Support for free-market policies and reforms: Does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?

Fischer

Kauder

Potrafke

et al. 2017

European Journal of Political Economy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractSince opinion leaders are usually university graduates, the field of study has an influence on public support for economic policies and policy reforms intended to enhance efficiency because advocating such policies often requires appreciation of the beneficial roles of markets and economic freedom. We investigate whether the field of study influences German university students' political attitudes. We disentangle self-selection from learning effects and reveal systematic differences between incoming students' political attitudes across eight fields of study. In a second step we explore how the students' political attitudes change as they progress in their academic training. Only studying economics has an unambiguous pro-market influence on political attitudes: by the time of graduation, economics students are some 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were in their initial year of study to agree with free-market policy positions. Studying humanities and natural sciences has a pro-leftist influence.JEL Code: A13, A22, B40, D01, Z13.

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“…16 Table 2 shows the breakdown by gender. Although there is substantial evidence that women tend to be more liberal than men (Abrams and Settle, 1999;Ferber and Brün, 2006;Lott and Kenny, 1999), among these students nearly half of both males and females consider themselves to be liberal or very liberal; however, 39 per cent of women and 30 per cent of men consider themselves moderates and only 15 per cent of women as compared to 25 per cent of men claim to be conservatives. 17 Table 3 shows the relationship between political leanings and major.…”

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Political Orientation and the Decision to Major in Economics: Some Preliminary Observations

Bartlett¹,

Ferber²,

Green³

2009

International Review of Economics Education

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Studies find that students major in economics for a variety of reasons. None, however, have examined students' political orientations as a possible factor in their choice of majors. Economics, as compared to other social sciences, tends to produce conservative policy recommendations.This pilot study explores whether more conservative students are attracted to economics. Our study found that men with conservative political leanings are more likely to major in economics and that male students in economics are more conservative than female students. Political orientation, however, does not appear to be a significant factor in the choice of a major for women.

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How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

Cited by 262 publications

References 29 publications

Compulsory Voting, Habit Formation, and Political Participation

Compulsory Voting, Habit Formation, and Political Participation

Support for free-market policies and reforms: Does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?

Political Orientation and the Decision to Major in Economics: Some Preliminary Observations

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