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SUBMITTER: Miller G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3046394 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The quarterly journal of economics 20080801 3
Women's choices appear to emphasize child welfare more than those of men. This paper presents new evidence on how suffrage rights for American women helped children to benefit from the scientific breakthroughs of the bacteriological revolution. Consistent with standard models of electoral competition, suffrage laws were followed by immediate shifts in legislative behavior and large, sudden increases in local public health spending. This growth in public health spending fueled large-scale door-to ...[more]