Women’s Suffrage and Children’s Education
利用美国选举权法的外生变化，发现童年时期接触女性选举权显著提高了弱势背景儿童（尤其是黑人和南方白人）的教育程度，并带来收入增长，主要原因是教育支出增加。
While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in US suffrage laws, we show that exposure to suffrage during childhood led to large increases in educational attainment for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially Blacks and Southern Whites. We also find that suffrage led to higher earnings alongside education gains, although not for Southern Blacks. Using newly digitized data, we show that education increases are primarily explained by suffrage-induced growth in education spending, although early-life health improvements may have also contributed.