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Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by … jurisdiction's transition to woman suffrage. Our results show that the general scarcity of women in the American West, or a high … sex ratio, was the single most important factor behind the region's lead in the enfranchisement of women in the US. High …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971794
still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the … and may have made woman suffrage more attractive in the eyes of western legislators that sought to attract more women to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003815240
still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the … and may have made woman suffrage more attractive in the eyes of western legislators that sought to attract more women to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824710
still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the … and may have made woman suffrage more attractive in the eyes of western legislators that sought to attract more women to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265672
still unclear. Studying the timing of woman suffrage adoption at state level, we find that states in which women were scarce … (the West) enfranchised their women much earlier than states in which the sex ratio was more balanced (the rest of the … and may have made woman suffrage more attractive in the eyes of western legislators that sought to attract more women to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265798
Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by … jurisdiction's transition to woman suffrage. Our results show that the general scarcity of women in the American West, or a high … sex ratio, was the single most important factor behind the region's lead in the enfranchisement of women in the US. High …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267265
education on voter turnout, such that the education gradient in voting is greater in U.S. States with the harshest … disenfranchisement legislature. As such, the observed relationship between education and voting is partly driven by the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537647
recipients by comparing higher education institutions within border-county pairs. Lastly, using individual-level data on voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738837
The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) paved the road to Black empowerment. How did southern whites respond? Leveraging newly …
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This paper studies the manipulation of electoral maps by political parties, known as gerrymandering. At the core of our analysis is the recognition that districts must have the same population size but only voters matter for electoral incentives. Using a novel model of gerrymandering that allows...
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