Women Leaving the Playpen: the Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois
• 署名单位: University of Zurich; Leibniz Association; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); University of Basel
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueac077
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 812-844
• 关键词: labor-force participation; POWER; aspirations; preferences; EVOLUTION; ECONOMICS; marriage; beliefs; culture; IMPACT

摘要

We study how political empowerment affected women's emancipation as reflected in their life choices. The staggered introduction of female suffrage in Swiss states allows us to exploit the variation in the age at which women were exposed to the right to vote to estimate the differences in life choices between women who were socialised in a world with politically empowered women and those who were socialised before. Our empirical findings document that early exposure to female suffrage increased female labour force participation, weakened marital bonds and motivated human capital investment.