Why Have Women Become Left-Wing? The Political Gender Gap and the Decline in Marriage

By L. Edlund, Rohini Pande. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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Female voting power: the contribution of women’s suffrage to the growth of social spending in Western Europe (1869–1960) (2008, background): “It is well-established that men and women vote differently ( Edlund and Pande 2002; Goldin 1990; Funk and Gathmann 2006).2 This gender gap suggests that granting”
Gender differences in COVID-19 attitudes and behavior: Panel evidence from eight countries (2020, background): “The existing literature shows that women are more risk averse than men (22) and that they are more left leaning and more favorable to government intervention (23, 24).”
When Do Covariates Matter? And Which Ones, and How Much? (2016, background): “Moreover, the δrace parameters are intuitively exactly what researchers seem to mean when they attempt to decompose the causes of the black-white wage gap.10 In the first row of Panel A of Table 5, I report estimates of Γrace from my NLSY sample.”
Families in Macroeconomics (2016, unknown): “A complementary theory is proposed by Fernández (2014). As in Doepke and Tertilt (2009), father’s concern for their children is a central element.”
Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Does Gender Matter? (2012, background): “There has been quite some speculation and a couple of case studies (Branson, 2006) that document apparent difficulties of “feminine” women to reach a certain level, but also inhibitors of very “masculine” women to reach the very top level in companies.(10) We do find that women with different values”
Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers (2007, unknown): “3 The shift in fathers’ attitudes is particularly interesting given the “gender gap” in political beliefs in this country: a larger fraction of women than men favor the Democratic Party (Edlund and Pande 2002).”
Decentralization and Local Governments' Performance: How Does Fiscal Autonomy Affect Spending Efficiency? (2012, unknown): “…of the mayor, looking at recent political economy literature that stresses the role of more experienced and female representatives in determining policy preferences and spending outcomes (e.g., Edlund and Pande, 2002; Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004; Dal Bó and Rossi, 2008; Funk and Gathmann, 2008).”
Can Informed Voters Enforce Better Governance? Experiments in Low-Income Democracies (2011, background): “Men and women typically exhibit different policy preferences, and in rich countries this translates into significant differences in voting patterns across genders (see, for instance, Edlund and Pande (2002); Edlund et al. (2005)).”