Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?
利用1870-1940年美国各州数据，发现女性获得选举权后，州政府支出和收入立即增加，联邦代表投票更自由，且效应随时间增强，表明性别差距早于1970年代就已存在。
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross‐sectional time‐series data for 1870–1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.