Women's Suffrage, Political Responsiveness, and Child Survival in American History
研究美国女性获得选举权后，立法行为和地方公共卫生支出如何变化，以及这些变化如何通过卫生运动降低儿童死亡率（8-15%），对关注政治经济学、公共健康和人口学的读者有参考价值。
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-door hygiene campaigns, and child mortality declined by 8-15% (or 20,000 annual child deaths nationwide) as cause-specific reductions occurred exclusively among infectious childhood killers sensitive to hygienic conditions.