Women Leaving the Playpen: The Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage
利用瑞士各州逐步引入女性选举权的时间差异，研究发现早期接触女性选举权增加了女性劳动参与率、削弱了婚姻纽带并促进了人力资本投资。
Abstract 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.