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Female socialization: how daughters affect their legislator fathers' voting on women's issues
In: NBER working paper series 11924
The Impact of Banking and Fringe Banking Regulation on the Number of Unbanked Americans
In: The journal of human resources, Band XLI, Heft 1, S. 106-137
ISSN: 1548-8004
Do Majority Black Districts Limit Blacks' Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting
In: NBER Working Paper No. w17099
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Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers' Voting on Women's Issues
In: American economic review, Band 98, Heft 1, S. 311-332
ISSN: 1944-7981
Parenting daughters, sociologists have shown, increases feminist sympathies. I test the hypothesis that children, much like neighbors or peers, can influence parental behavior. I demonstrate that conditional on total number of children, each daughter increases a congressperson's propensity to vote liberally, particularly on reproductive rights issues. The results identify an important (and previously omitted) explanatory variable in the literature on congressional decision making. Additionally the paper highlights the relevance of child-to-parent behavioral influence. (JEL D72, D83, J16)
Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers' Voting on Women's Issues
In: NBER Working Paper No. w11924
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How Black Candidates Affect Voter Turnout
In: NBER Working Paper No. w11915
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Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate
In: American economic review, Band 108, Heft 10, S. 2830-2867
ISSN: 1944-7981
A long-standing debate in political economy is whether voters are driven primarily by economic self-interest or by less pecuniary motives like ethnocentrism. Using newly available data, we reexamine one of the largest partisan shifts in a modern democracy: Southern whites' exodus from the Democratic Party. We show that defection among racially conservative whites explains the entire decline from 1958 to 1980. Racial attitudes also predict whites' earlier partisan shifts. Relative to recent work, we find a much larger role for racial views and essentially no role for income growth or (non-race-related) policy preferences in explaining why Democrats "lost" the South. (JEL D72, J15, N42)
Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate
In: NBER Working Paper No. w21703
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Valuing the Vote: the Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965
In: NBER Working Paper No. w17776
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Are the Seeds of Bad Governance Sown in Good Times?
In: NBER Working Paper No. w17061
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Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Voting
In: NBER Working Paper No. w11910
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The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses
In: NBER Working Paper No. w14578
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Segregation and Black Political Efficacy
In: NBER Working Paper No. w13606
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Political Alignment, Attitudes Toward Government, and Tax Evasion
We ask whether attitudes toward government play a causal role in the evasion of US personal income taxes. As turnover elections move voters in partisan counties into and out of alignment with the party of the president, we find with alignment (i) taxpayers report more easily evaded forms of income; (ii) suspect EITC claims decrease; and (iii) audits triggered and audits found to owe additional tax decrease. Coupled with evidence that alignment leads to more favorable views on taxation and spending, our results provide real world evidence that a positive outlook on government lowers tax evasion. (JEL D72, H24, H26, H31)
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