Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers' Voting on Women's Issues
Year: 2006
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Economists have long concerned themselves with environmental influences, such as neighborhood, peers and family on individuals' beliefs and behaviors.However, the impact of children on parents' behavior has been little studied.Parenting daughters, psychologists have shown, increases feminist sympathies.I test the hypothesis that children, much like neighbors or peers, can influence adult behavior.I demonstrate that the propensity to vote liberally on reproductive rights is significantly increasing in a congress person's proportion of daughters.The result demonstrates not only the relevance of child to parent behavioral influence, but also the importance of personal ideology in a legislator's voting decisions as it is not explained away by voter preferences.
Source: American Economic Review
DOI: 10.1257/aer.98.1.311
Author: Ebonya L Washington
Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2074355820