Unmarried parenthood and redistributive politics

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Edlund, L; Pande, R; Haider, L
• 署名单位: Columbia University; Yale University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1162/1542476053295313
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 95-119
• 关键词: gender-gap; womens

摘要

Political survey data for nine West European countries show that women have become increasingly left-wing compared to men, and that this trend is positively correlated with the rise of nonmarriage in these countries. This pattern is mirrored in German longitudinal data (GSOEP), where transitions out of marriage make women, but not men, significantly more left-leaning. Analysis of public spending data for high-income OECD countries (1980-1998) suggests that the political impact of nonmarriage extends to the allocation of State resources with increases in nonmarriage first reducing, and then increasing, State redistribution towards children.